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Adjective
She deserves credit for the increase in sales and the resultant increase in profit.
frequent trips to the ice cream parlor and the resultant weight gain were starting to affect my tennis game
Noun
a person's decision to purchase a certain automobile is often the resultant of an array of factors, ranging from the actual performance of the vehicle to the buyer's self-image
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Carl Anka, The Athletic, 13 Dec. 2024
The resultant social fracturing is pitting the vast majority against a newly vocal minority of junta sympathizers.
—Joshua Hammer, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Dec. 2024
Mark Lamster, Dallas News, 29 June 2023
The 12-page unclassified summary of the Biden administration’s after action report on the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan laid most of the blame for the rapid defeat of Afghan forces and the resultant need for a chaotic 17-day evacuation on the Trump administration's failure to plan.
—Jamie McIntyre, Washington Examiner, 7 Apr. 2023
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Adjective
Bruno Fernandes would make a cynical foul to stop the resultant Plzen counter-attack, and from the free-kick after that Andre Onana would collide and hurt Casemiro.
—Carl Anka, The Athletic, 13 Dec. 2024
The resultant social fracturing is pitting the vast majority against a newly vocal minority of junta sympathizers.
—Joshua Hammer, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Dec. 2024
Noun
Designers had initially hoped to tunnel beneath the rail line, but UP refused permission, the resultant bridge adding well over $15 million to the project cost, according to Ellerman.
—Mark Lamster, Dallas News, 29 June 2023
The 12-page unclassified summary of the Biden administration’s after action report on the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan laid most of the blame for the rapid defeat of Afghan forces and the resultant need for a chaotic 17-day evacuation on the Trump administration's failure to plan.
—Jamie McIntyre, Washington Examiner, 7 Apr. 2023
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“Resultant.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/resultant. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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resultant
1 of 2 adjective
re·sul·tant
ri-ˈzəlt-ᵊnt 
: coming from or resulting from something else
resultantly
adverb
resultant
2 of 2 noun
: something that results : outcome
especially
: the single vector that is the sum of a given set of vectors
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