How to Use the upshot in a Sentence
the upshot
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In hindsight, to Legler the upshot has been a lack of forethought by the Heat.
—Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 4 Apr. 2023
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But the upshot was that soon, the streets of Harlem were flooded with heroin.
—Carol Sutton Lewis, Scientific American, 6 Apr. 2023
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What will the upshot of the Newnew Polar Bear incidents be?
—Eric Tegler, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
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But the upshot is that a 1.25x graphics boost over the M1 is far from a headlining feature.
—Tom Brant, PCMAG, 7 June 2022
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But the upshot of the closures and added labor is that the season is now extended 10 extra days, Lacey said.
—Amudalat Ajasa, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Apr. 2023
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So here’s the upshot: if history is any guide, the Jazz will be making moves this offseason with the luxury tax in mind.
—Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 29 June 2022
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Yet even as Daisy Ridley acts with a wary urgency, the upshot is that Helena, raised not by wolves but by a kind of human wolf, is supposed to be a huntress to her bones.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 2 Nov. 2023
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The settlement would involve fines and some other measures, but the upshot would be that Binance and the U.S. government would let bygones be bygones.
—Jeff John Roberts, Fortune Crypto, 7 July 2023
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Writers think the upshot of the studios’ demand is that they will be pushed to do more with less by executives beholden to shareholders rather than the creative process.
—Erica Werner, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Sep. 2023
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Several are the upshot of Aikens’ sense of exceptionalism.
—Lisa Kennedy, Variety, 14 July 2022
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If that all sounds like gibberish, the upshot is that, according to Worldcoin, the company has devised a perfect system to prove human uniqueness in a way that won’t compromise privacy.
—Leo Schwartz, Fortune Crypto, 21 Mar. 2023
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For Europe the upshot was a new territorial settlement.
—Peter Grier, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Feb. 2022
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That assumption leads to all kinds of sloppy accounting, double-counting, and greenwashing, with the upshot that the carbon market hasn’t been effective at driving down total global emissions, which is ultimately the point.
—Tim McDonnell, Quartz, 6 Dec. 2022
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