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

Trade barriers to Chinese goods are rising, and its own economy is menaced by deflation, the outgrowth of its rampant production.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 1, 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