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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"That's not the result we came for and not the performance," Williams told BBC Radio 5 Live.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
A high ADR premium doesn’t necessarily foretell disaster—in 2008-09, TSMC’s fat premium was the result of Taiwanese shares’ falling much more than the ADRs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
All of these examples ultimately result in economic benefit and opportunity.
From Salon ● Jul. 26, 2026
As a result, fallow fields are in a "deplorable state, and at the slightest spark, the blaze spreads like wildfire" due to vegetation dried out by the heat.
From Barron's ● Jul. 25, 2026
They were born into their sadness, but hers was the result of an accident.
From "City Spies" by James Ponti
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If Alphabet were excluded from second-quarter earnings figures overall, the S&P 500’s blended earnings growth rate — which combines actual results and expected results — would fall to 25.9%, from 37.9%, according to the report.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 26, 2026
Hasbro’s results sent its shares up 8.8% on Tuesday, marking their biggest gain in more than a year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
The charity says the results help researchers track how species are responding to climate change, habitat loss and conservation efforts.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
Alphabet’s results landed as Wall Street increasingly worries about the costs of the artificial-intelligence buildout.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 26, 2026
If the Americans launch an attack without knowing where the land mines are, the results will be disastrous.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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“While nothing can replace the life that was lost, the swift and focused work of our detectives resulted in the suspect being safely taken into custody.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
Fewer than 1 in 10 of those stops resulted in seizures of guns or drugs, the report said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
From the chart of the put-call ratio of KEY, one can see that there were two previous sell signals in the past year, and both resulted in a modest decline in the stock price.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026
“The traditional models of diplomacy have resulted in duplicative or even contradictory foreign policy actions,” Kelly said in an email.
From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2026
And it was also here, unfortunately, that the Mud People were most in tune with magic, which resulted in a far higher People-sighting rate than you got anywhere else on the planet.
From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer
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The researchers also discovered that many of the resulting brain and behavioral effects could be improved rapidly in adulthood, although only temporarily, with a single dose of the immune-suppressing drug rapamycin.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 25, 2026
The resulting case, In re: Turner, helped end the practice of racialized child “apprenticeship” and shaped the meaning of the 13th and 14th amendments.
From Slate ● Jul. 25, 2026
The resulting fuel shortages have led to big price rises, and the central bank said inflation may be higher than forecast if Russian workers and businesses respond to increased energy costs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
According to the Home Office, immigration enforcement teams carried out 2,715 illegal working visits and raids in London during 2025, resulting in 2,172 arrests.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
The immense diversity of imagined realities that Sapiens invented, and the resulting diversity of behaviour patterns, are the main components of what we call ‘cultures’.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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