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consequence

[kon-si-kwens, -kwuhns] / ˈkɒn sɪˌkwɛns, -kwəns /




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This is the structural consequence of an economy that became extraordinarily productive at making goods but not at raising children or treating the sick.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026

Reviews published afterward have also described mitochondrial failure as an early and potentially central feature of Alzheimer's biology, not merely a late consequence of brain damage.

From Science Daily • May 16, 2026

Higher energy prices are only the most immediate economic consequence of the conflict.

From MarketWatch • May 13, 2026

"The collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge was a preventable tragedy of enormous consequence," acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said in a statement.

From Barron's • May 12, 2026

The Scientific Revolution was a single transformative process, the cumulative consequence, not of one sort of change repeated many times, but of several distinct types of change overlapping and interlocking with each other.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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