upshot
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Another upshot of El Niño: We know where disaster is likely to strike, and can prepare.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
The upshot of “The Next Movement” is that this critic is not a dance junkie, per se.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
"So, anyone claiming that was spreading lies, misinformation, to generate clicks on social media, to whip up the community, wind people up and this is the upshot of it."
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
The upshot is hotter and drier conditions in some places, cooler and wetter in others.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
The upshot is that your computations are necessarily based on a series of nested assumptions, any of which could be a source of contention.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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