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as in outcome
a condition or occurrence traceable to a cause
a predictable outgrowth of the suburb's ever growing population will be the need for more schools
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as in derivation
something that naturally develops or is developed from something else
an industry that is an outgrowth of the technology first developed for the U.S. space program
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Recent Examples of outgrowth
The Diddy federal trial is the outgrowth of a civil suit filed, in 2023, by Ventura against Combs.
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Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 3 July 2025
There were outgrowths above the blastema—the animals were producing more tissue.
—Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 26 June 2025
The letters are an outgrowth of global tariffs Trump first imposed on April 2, with rates ranging from 10% to 50%.
—Danielle Kurtzleben, NPR, 12 July 2025
Ross’ career creating comic book heroes and villains began as an outgrowth of an assignment 25 years ago to create a life-size portrait of Superman that was designed to be a cardboard standup.
—Myrna Petlicki, Chicago Tribune, 7 June 2025
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Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 3 July 2025
There were outgrowths above the blastema—the animals were producing more tissue.
—Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 26 June 2025
The letters are an outgrowth of global tariffs Trump first imposed on April 2, with rates ranging from 10% to 50%.
—Danielle Kurtzleben, NPR, 12 July 2025
Ross’ career creating comic book heroes and villains began as an outgrowth of an assignment 25 years ago to create a life-size portrait of Superman that was designed to be a cardboard standup.
—Myrna Petlicki, Chicago Tribune, 7 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for outgrowth
Noun
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Tree limbs could be blown down and a few power outages may result.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
11 Aug. 2025
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No, wait— a few flakes come dusting down, where one limb shakes.—
David Baker,
New Yorker,
11 Aug. 2025
Noun
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There are people that put a lot of effort into the outcome of our games, in here and all over the place.—
David O'Brien,
New York Times,
13 Aug. 2025
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That could lead to a lot of very bad outcomes including death.—
Brian Mann,
NPR,
13 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Labels want systems that can not only detect direct sample reuse but also flag stylistic derivations within generative model outputs.—
Virginie Berger,
Forbes.com,
6 June 2025
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Whether numbers, systems of equations, derivations or geometric objects, everything should spring from a few basic assumptions.—
Manon Bischoff,
Scientific American,
9 May 2025
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And while viral growth inevitably flattens, James is confident in Stanley’s onwards trajectory.—
Lela London,
Forbes.com,
19 Aug. 2025
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Selgin dismisses arguments that strong and steady growth after the war reflected the stabilizing impact of a larger public sector, improvements in monetary policy, a robustly expanding global economy, and strict regulation that suppressed the risk of banking crises for a quarter of a century.—
Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Affairs,
19 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Padres relievers had the better game, but the Kershaw-Vásquez result was a two-run deficit.—
Tom Krasovic,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
17 Aug. 2025
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Though the intentions are aboveboard, the result is dismal and, frankly, disappointing.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
16 Aug. 2025
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Some evidence has seemed to point to the potato being a tomato derivative: Large stretches of their genomes resemble each other, and the two crops are similar enough that they can be grafted together into a plant that produces both foods.—
Katherine J. Wu,
The Atlantic,
31 July 2025
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Bearish sentiment was also evident in the derivatives market where an unidentified speculator paid about $5 million in premium on the Deribit exchange to buy Bitcoin put options expiring on Aug. 8 at the strike price of $110,000, according to prime broker FalconX, which facilitated the trade.—
Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
25 July 2025
Noun
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Blue Bloods is a prime example of a CBS drama that thrived in that time slot for its 14-season run, something CBS is looking to replicate with the upcoming offshoot Boston Blue, scheduled in the same Friday 10 p.m. time period.—
Nellie Andreeva,
Deadline,
13 Aug. 2025
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Hot 100 hit by a female K-pop group in the chart’s 60-plus year history — previous top spots were held solely by BTS and its solo offshoots.—
Thania Garcia,
Variety,
11 Aug. 2025
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The resultant fertilized dire wolf eggs were implanted into and born by surrogate dog mothers, resulting in the successful resurrection of an Ice Age-era species.—
Mike Snider,
USA Today,
12 Aug. 2025
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After cooling, the resultant solid was ground into powder to produce the final pigment.—
Jay Kakade
June 14,
New Atlas,
14 June 2025
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“Outgrowth.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/outgrowth. Accessed 23 Aug. 2025.
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