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Recent Examples of downside The downside of rising bond yields for consumers is clear, experts said: interest rates go up. Max Zahn, ABC News, 9 Apr. 2025 The downside to a fire is somehow someone is always sitting directly in the path of the smoke. Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 8 Apr. 2025 These tokens illustrate how speculative assets tied to political figures can generate short-term buzz but carry significant downside for everyday buyers. Gordon G. Chang, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Apr. 2025 To date, however, its downsides have been understood only as a problem for shareholders, not society, despite broad and bipartisan concern about the influence of Big Tech. Gregory H. Shill, The Conversation, 8 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for downside
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Noun
  • Mitch Raposo: Mitch Raposo needed to negate an eight-inch reach disadvantage against Sumudaerji.
    Trent Reinsmith, Forbes.com, 12 Apr. 2025
  • Despite its disadvantages, single living is on the rise.
    Peter McGraw, The Conversation, 10 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • In 1936, famed Olympic runner Jesse Owens raced a horse in a 100-yard dash and won thanks in part to a 40-yard handicap).
    Emily Barone, Time, 19 July 2017
  • LNK classes have done everything from installing handicap doors at Redwood to creating a Healthy Newborn site for Transitions that serves mothers going through addiction recovery.
    Brent Cooper, Cincinnati.com, 17 July 2017
Noun
  • Not many of the other prospects check those boxes without at least one very notable drawback.
    Michael-Shawn Dugar, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2025
  • There are some unavoidable drawbacks to its more limited memory, though.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 10 Apr. 2025

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