outgrowth
Example Sentences
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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
“The road being built in this corrupt, cruel way was a natural outgrowth of everything set up in the first movie. We’re telling the audience right away, ‘We explore heavy themes in our story.’”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 24, 2025
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
At one level, you could look at the moment we’re experiencing now as an outgrowth or culmination of that force.
From Slate ● Sep. 12, 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
