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result
noun as in effect brought about by something
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verb as in happen, develop
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Example Sentences
The rebels though seemed somewhat chastened by the result despite more than doubling the anti-Boehner votes from two years ago.
The result is that drone operators are leaving the Air Force in droves.
As a result, training squadrons—called Formal Training Units (FTU)—are being staffed with less than half the people they need.
Police Superintendent Michael Harrison said the decline was a result of an effort to decrease gang violence.
Men and women who become infertile as a result of chemotherapy could also regain their reproductive capabilities.
Where these overtones are interfered with by any imperfection in the instrument the result is a harsh or imperfect sound.
The result of this mission was eminently successful; a special treaty was drawn up and Spain sold Louisiana to France.
The steamboat of 1809 and the steam locomotive of 1830 were the direct result of what had gone before.
The result was that some 40 rebels were killed, others taken prisoners, and the remainder escaped into the planted fields.
The act, however, is a progressive piece of legislation and creates new conditions as the result of its own operation.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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