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Recent Examples of side effect
For example, it’s widely accepted that cancer drugs have harsh side effects but not enough to outweigh the potential benefit of treating an often fatal disease.
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Kaitlin Sullivan, NBC News, 30 Jan. 2025
With no apparent benefit, patients were left with just side effects.
—Guillaume Cabanac, The Conversation, 29 Jan. 2025
For many people, the benefits of these medications outweigh side effects like hair thinning.
—Leslie Baumann, Miami Herald, 29 Jan. 2025
One side effect for CMOs and CXOs to worry about is that customers who earn status the old-fashioned way, by actually traveling, may resent the practice of their preferred brand offering shortcuts to status.
—Roger Dooley, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2025
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Kaitlin Sullivan, NBC News, 30 Jan. 2025
With no apparent benefit, patients were left with just side effects.
—Guillaume Cabanac, The Conversation, 29 Jan. 2025
For many people, the benefits of these medications outweigh side effects like hair thinning.
—Leslie Baumann, Miami Herald, 29 Jan. 2025
One side effect for CMOs and CXOs to worry about is that customers who earn status the old-fashioned way, by actually traveling, may resent the practice of their preferred brand offering shortcuts to status.
—Roger Dooley, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for side effect
Noun
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Leaders of the University of California, the nation’s top higher education recipient of federal research funding, are raising questions and voicing concerns about the ramifications of a temporary Trump administration pause on research grant reviews announced this week.—
Teresa Watanabe,
Los Angeles Times,
25 Jan. 2025
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After grappling with the ramifications behind her hot flashes, night sweats and decreased libido, the soon-to-be-chef sees menopause not as an end, but as a time for a second act—and thereby goes on to revolutionize home cooking.—
Jennifer Vineyard,
Flow Space,
24 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Few players are willing to show up to the rink feeling the aftereffects of a late night out.—
Joshua Kloke,
The Athletic,
24 Jan. 2025
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Many Texans remember the aftereffects of Winter Storm Uri, when electricity rates hit the market cap of $9 per kilowatt-hour (kWh).—
Caitlin Ritchie,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
9 Jan. 2025
Noun
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The connection between Nafisi and Bahri is presented with complexity and without sentimentality, neither papering over political differences nor caricaturing Bahri as a generic revolutionary.—
Arash Azizi,
The Atlantic,
26 Jan. 2025
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Indeed, the piece is chock full of layers and complexity, smart composition and plain old good dancing — frustratingly good in its attention to detail.—
Lauren Warnecke,
Chicago Tribune,
25 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Tax experts are well-versed in navigating the tax code’s convolutions and can offer personalized guidance.—
Quartz Intelligence Newsroom,
Quartz,
28 Jan. 2025
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The stakes are higher than ever, and most refreshingly of all, the convolution levels are very manageable right now.—
Ben Rosenstock,
Vulture,
23 Jan. 2025
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When the Covid mandate was announced, she was terrified of similar complications.—
Dexter Filkins,
The New Yorker,
3 Feb. 2025
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Maida died Saturday in New York of complications resulting from a fall in December, his wife, singer-songwriter Lisa Burns-Maida, announced.—
Mike Barnes,
The Hollywood Reporter,
3 Feb. 2025
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“Side effect.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/side%20effect. Accessed 9 Feb. 2025.
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