result
Frequently Asked Questions
- The result was clearly an upset—the favorites lost to a weaker and less experienced team.
- Using cold butter yields better results when making pastry.
- The scandal has resulted in the resignation of three top officials.
Example Sentences
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As a result, therapies that are useful at one stage may not have the same effect at another.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2026
Some refineries are offline in the Middle East and Russia and the world is short about 1.6 million barrels of diesel per day as a result, the International Energy Agency said last month.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
Yandex said that its data centre in Sasovo, in the Ryazan region, had been "seriously damaged as a result of a drone attack" overnight into Thursday, with its operations "completely suspended".
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
“There’s a pathology going on here that is so out of keeping with the dignity that ought to characterize the taking of a life as a result of a legal process,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
As a result of the two laws, nearly eight million children donned the brown uniforms of the Hitler Youth in 1939.
From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
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"While more study is needed, we are excited by these results, and they suggest a clear path forward for future research in this area," said Menard.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2026
“If you want things to change and you want narratives to change, you have to change them through action collectively. If our results are better, that’s the only thing that matters.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2026
Nobel peace laureate and opposition leader Maria Corina Machado remains in exile, though she has said she will not interfere and hopes to see concrete results.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026
But the company is facing tough competition, which Boots acknowledged affected revenues in its latest financial results.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
They scrolled through the top search results for “Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library.”
From "Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics" by Chris Grabenstein
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Of course, back when barefoot running was the rage in the mid-2000s, alleged injuries caused by zero-stack, or “barely there,” shoes resulted in lawsuits against manufacturers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026
Five of the lawsuits resulted in settlements, and the companies paid the plaintiffs more than $2 million.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
In the Vale of Glamorgan, businesses use a mix of council and private services, and the local authority said the change has resulted in a "higher quality of recycling".
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
“At a time where everybody in Michigan is experiencing an affordability crisis, Blue Cross of Michigan’s unlawful conduct has resulted in everyone paying more,” said Dana Nessel, Michigan’s attorney general.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
Thus Pizarro’s capture of Atahuallpa illustrates the set of proximate factors that resulted in Europeans’ colonizing the New World instead of Native Americans’ colonizing Europe.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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High surf battered parts of Huntington Beach, resulting in localized flooding on streets in the Sunset Beach area.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
This exponential move is explained by the record-breaking tanker rates resulting from disruptions to energy shipments in the Strait of Hormuz over the last six months.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026
The resulting protein may function as an enzyme, provide structural support, transport molecules, or perform countless other cellular tasks.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026
Airlines, regulators and aerospace manufacturers have worked to stamp out deadly accidents resulting from overshooting runways, mistakenly flying into terrain or failures in aircraft structures.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
Burnham claimed the agreement was a victory for the exposition, but in fact the fair’s concessions were a breakthrough for organized labor, and the resulting contracts became models for other unions to emulate.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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