side effect
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One possibility is that the rise in these living arrangements is just a side effect of another jarring trend: rapidly declining marriage and fertility rates.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026
Even beyond the black market, the glamorization of testosterone often glosses over the primary, life-altering side effect: reduced fertility.
From Slate ● Sep. 13, 2026
A well-documented side effect of the drugs is called dysgeusia, which can produce an unpleasant, metallic taste in the mouth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
As a side effect, people using these drugs also lost a lot of weight, in some cases almost as much as might be expected from bariatric surgery.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 12, 2026
But for this coded note, it has an unintended side effect: since Leonardo was already writing backward, all these backward names are written forward.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
