upshot
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She said: "He found a little hedgehog in need of care and we got talking, so the upshot was that I gave them the templates for both nesting and feeding boxes."
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026
The upshot is hotter and drier conditions in some places, cooler and wetter in others.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
He is in no doubt that AI will bring savings for oil-and-gas producers, but isn’t certain what the upshot will be.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
“The upshot is that despite potential signs of a pickup in employment growth, the labor market won’t be a source of inflationary pressure this year,” said economist Matthew Martin of Oxford Economics.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 6, 2026
The upshot is that your computations are necessarily based on a series of nested assumptions, any of which could be a source of contention.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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