side effects

variants also side reactions
plural of side effect

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Noun
  • The ramifications of this trade will be far-reaching and multi-layered.
    Tony Jones, New York Times, 2 July 2026
  • Once it was passed in October, cities, homeowners, developers and even politicians scrambled to figure out the ramifications.
    Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2026
Noun
  • Because there are no other nearby heat generators, that energy must be residual aftereffects of an earlier era.
    Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 1 July 2026
  • But its costs and aftereffects will likely linger for years.
    Scott Horsley, NPR, 17 June 2026
Noun
  • This software layer must manage data and model lifecycles while providing a cloud-native platform and resilient hypervisor to abstract away hardware complexities.
    Sam Rastogi, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
  • Chinese humanoid makers pay companies like X-Humanoid up to $150 an hour for physical interaction data, depending on the complexities of these chores, said Jiang Weilai, head of the facility X-Humanoid.
    John Liu, CNN Money, 30 June 2026
Noun
  • Among the potential complications are severe dehydration, electrolyte imbalance and loss of fluid volume in the body, according to the Cleveland Clinic.
    Adam England, PEOPLE, 3 July 2026
  • The babies, who were about 17 days old, had no complications other than prematurity, the summary said.
    David Hilzenrath, USA Today, 2 July 2026
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