result
Frequently Asked Questions
- The result was clearly an upset—the favorites lost to a weaker and less experienced team.
- Using cold butter yields better results when making pastry.
- The scandal has resulted in the resignation of three top officials.
Example Sentences
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Experts I talked to explained that such decline is the economic result of consolidation, which reduces competition and therefore removes incentives for movie studios to take creative risks.
From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026
With a 7% annual investment return, investing a $1,600 benefit starting at age 62 could result in a total of $80,000 or more by age 67.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026
“The conditions that we’re feeling at the coast — the kind of muggy air — is a result of our warmer sea surface temperatures,” Westerink said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
Some planning experts argue that slow construction is the result of nonregulatory complications, such as skill shortages, high material costs from postpandemic inflation and supply-chain shortages and higher interest rates that make financing more difficult.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
“Good day,” Alexander repeated through bared teeth; as a result the phrase, while socially useful, was not very well pronounced.
From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood
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Roberts said the quality of Tucker’s at-bats have looked better over the past couple weeks, even if the results may not show it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
But when he compared his results to other research, O'Connor struggled to find the standards he wanted.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
Wednesday will kick off the earnings season for technology companies, with Magnificent Seven constituents Alphabet and Tesla set to report quarterly results after the closing bell.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 19, 2026
Now all eyes are on Krishna and the official results the company will report on Wednesday after markets close.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
It was a pleasure to do work that produced results that were so important to the engineers.
From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson
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After Wales' scrum buckled early on, an ineffective attacking play involving Thomas resulted in Springboks hooker Malcolm Marx achieving a turnover penalty with rampaging lock Cobus Wiese almost crossing the Welsh line before knocking on.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
It’s true that many decades of poor land management have resulted in overgrown forests in Canada, but the same goes for the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
Between 2014 and 2023, 75 crashes on this stretch of Pico resulted in severe injury or death.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
MarketWatch previously reported comments about tokenization on a Brian Chesky social-media account that now appear to have resulted from a hack.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026
According to wetlands experts quoted in the paper, the whole thing had resulted from the pond being too shallow and the water too warm.
From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx
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HBM producers have diverted their efforts toward fulfilling lucrative data-center contracts, resulting in increasing component costs for consumer products.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 18, 2026
The resulting maps traced gas motion deep within the black hole's sphere of influence.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 18, 2026
In a clip from the show, granddaughter Kim Kardashian detailed that her grandmother had survived colon cancer and breast cancer and, in her sunset years, struggled with sickness resulting from the cancer treatments.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2026
“During an arrival maneuver, an aircraft flew lower than standard profiles, resulting in a disturbance on the beach that affected civilian chairs and umbrellas,” a Navy spokesperson said in a statement.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026
Naturally, those pictorial signs consisted mainly of numerals plus nouns for visible objects; the resulting texts were merely accounting reports in a telegraphic shorthand devoid of grammatical elements.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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