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result in
verb as in beget
verb as in bring
verb as in cause
Strong matches
verb as in lead
Strongest matches
Strong matches
verb as in produce
verb as in tend
verb as in total
Example Sentences
“Prolonged rainfall will result in an increased risk of flooding, an increased risk of landslides, and downed trees and power lines across the North Bay,” the National Weather Service’s Bay Area office wrote in a Friday morning forecast.
It acknowledged that it had only “moderate confidence” that such concentrations could result in lower IQs, and stated that it had “insufficient data” to determine that the 0.7 mg/liter concentration in fluoridated tap water affects IQ.
A plan by Advance Auto Parts to stem deepening losses by closing hundreds of stores will result “in a complete exit of certain markets on the West Coast” as the company shutters California locations, its chief executive said.
If DNA damage is not properly repaired, mutations can occur, which may result in diseases like cancer.
The research team hopes that some years in the future, these fundamental experiments will perhaps result in the development of useful methods for treating cancer.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is another word for result in?
The phrase result in is a very common way to say that an action or event has had a specific result—an effect or consequence.
In many cases, saying that an action or event has resulted in something means the same thing as saying that it has actively caused it.
A somewhat informal term that means the same thing is bring about. Sometimes, bring is used by itself to mean the same thing, as in These changes will bring prosperity.
A similar phrase is give rise to, which sometimes implies less of a direct cause-and-effect relationship (result in can also be used in such situations).
Formal and less commonly used synonyms include engender and beget (which can be used in the same figurative way as the phrase give birth to).
A more common synonym is produce, which is usually used in situations in which something is created in some way.
Is it result to or result in?
Result in is the common idiomatic verb phrase. It’s possible for result and to to appear next to each other in a sentence (as in Send the result to the lab), but it’s not an idiomatic phrase in English. Phrases similar to result in use different prepositions, such as bring about and give rise to.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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