by-product
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The Fed was moving to counter that slowdown, with any lift to stocks a by-product.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 23, 2026
The majority of the UK's CO2 is imported from Europe but it is often produced as a by-product when companies make fertiliser, which needs natural gas.
From BBC ● Apr. 25, 2026
Existing by-product is already stored in a permanent disposal facility "constructed and managed to ensure the material does not impact on the surrounding environment," the company said.
From Barron's ● Apr. 22, 2026
Through it all, however, West struggled with depression and a sense of self-loathing, and had trouble with intimacy, much of it a by-product of a hardscrabble childhood in West Virginia with a domineering father.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2026
Unconscious goblin guards covered the room’s floor in heaps, a by-product of the wolf’s entrance, most likely.
From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley
Countries have been wrestling with what to do with dangerous nuclear by-products since the first plants were built in the 1950s.
From Barron's ● Jun. 1, 2026
She also expects MMG’s copper-production costs to fall thanks to higher prices for its by-products and lower copper-concentrate treatment charges.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 25, 2025
It is possible to run Glen Sannox on biogas, which is produced from organic waste such as manure or by-products from the whisky industry.
From BBC ● Dec. 30, 2024
Fear and suspicion are, of course, common by-products of war.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2024
If this is all that atoms have, then the qualities that we perceive in the world—colour, taste, smell, sound, texture, temperature—must be by-products of size, shape and movement.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
