outgrowth
Example Sentences
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At UCLA, the new department is an outgrowth of a longstanding minor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
The injured tissue produced substantial neurite outgrowth, meaning the long extensions that allow neurons to communicate began growing again.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 16, 2026
These buyouts are absurd, an outgrowth of a crazed marketplace and undeniably screwy optics at a state university.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2025
They also clarify the damage wrought by our collective amnesia and our refusal to learn from history – an outgrowth of our propensity to view our place in history from an exceptionalist perspective.
From Salon ● Apr. 30, 2025
Equally important, Woods says, the mound city was in large part an outgrowth of the community's previous adoption of maize.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
