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outgrowth
[out-grohth]
noun
a natural development, product, or result.
to consider truancy an outgrowth of parental neglect.
an additional, supplementary result.
a growing out or forth.
something that grows out; offshoot; excrescence.
outgrowth
/ ˈʊˌɡəʊθ /
noun
a thing growing out of a main body
a development, result, or consequence
the act of growing out
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of outgrowth1
Example Sentences
They also clarify the damage wrought by our collective amnesia and our refusal to learn from history – an outgrowth of our propensity to view our place in history from an exceptionalist perspective.
The trend was a natural outgrowth of the North American Free Trade Agreement, signed in 1994, which lowered tariffs between the U.S.,
“The healthcare system we have now is an accidental outgrowth of efforts to combat post-World War II inflation,” he writes.
The rise of the meme costume might be seen as an outgrowth of the trends that prevailed before it, except today the primary aspiration is attention.
The cheers were an outgrowth of the party’s efforts to reclaim the rhetoric of patriotism, couching its mix of economic and reproductive rights promises as a “freedom” agenda.
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