upshot
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There was no political upshot of these remarks.
From Slate • May 6, 2026
The upshot, he said: “More demand, stronger pricing and a new type of traveler entering the market almost overnight.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 2026
So the upshot for a bank is that lending to a financial intermediary that makes certain loans, even at a lower yield, can be much more profitable than making those loans itself.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 25, 2026
The upshot is that persistent market volatility could well prevent a decisive price move in one direction or the other for cryptocurrencies.
From Barron's • Mar. 24, 2026
The upshot of all this is that physics ended up with two bodies of laws–one for the world of the very small, one for the universe at large–leading quite separate lives.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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