outcome
a final product or end result; consequence; issue.
a conclusion reached through a process of logical thinking.
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How to use outcome in a sentence
Cassandra, whose hair has already begun to fall out from her court-mandated chemotherapy, could face a similar outcome.
The possibility that the same outcome could happen another way -- namely a guy asks me out -- keeps me from taking action.
Random Hook-Ups or Dry Spells: Why Millennials Flunk College Dating | Ellie Schaack | January 1, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTIn Rome, he writes, the chicken “predicted the outcome of battles.”
The History of the Chicken: How This Humble Bird Saved Humanity | William O’Connor | December 27, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTWe stand by our filmmakers and their right to free expression and are extremely disappointed by this outcome.
Sony: Hollywood’s Most Subversive Studio Under Attack | Marlow Stern | December 23, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe outcome of the rum feud is critical for both Bacardi and Pernod Ricard, because the winner could net billions in future sales.
The poverty of earlier days was the outcome of the insufficiency of human labor to meet the primal needs of human kind.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice | Stephen LeacockThe vision itself is an outcome of that divine discontent which raises man above his environment.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice | Stephen LeacockThis, thought I, is a dismal-looking outcome—two men and a dead horse left high and dry on the sun-flooded prairie.
Raw Gold | Bertrand W. SinclairThe outcome of the wrangle was a purely personal accommodation of an essentially momentary character.
King Robert the Bruce | A. F. MurisonThey had awaited the outcome of the Sands-Chester transaction rather from curiosity than any doubt as to the result.
Dorothy at Skyrie | Evelyn Raymond
British Dictionary definitions for outcome
/ (ˈaʊtˌkʌm) /
something that follows from an action, dispute, situation, etc; result; consequence
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