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outgrowth

Noun

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That which grows out of, or proceeds from, anything; an excrescence; an offshoot; hence, a result or consequence.

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a bony process Source: Internet

figurines presage the emergence of sculpture in Greece Source: Internet

A minority report by Massimo Teodori concluded that P2 was not just an abnormal outgrowth from an essentially healthy system, as upheld by the majority report, but an inherent part of the system itself. Source: Internet

Freedmen's Hospital was an outgrowth of the Bureau for the Relief of Freedmen and Refugees authorized by the Act of March 3, 1865. Source: Internet

A synthesis of media and retail: Doug Stephens, CEO of Retail Prophet, says the B8TA model is an inevitable outgrowth of the maturation of e-commerce, in which we are all just a swipe of a smartphone—or an aside to Alexa—from buying something. Source: Internet

An outgrowth of the Jan. 1989 research symposium at the Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute on Electron Deficient Clusters. Source: Internet

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