side effects

variants also side reactions
plural of side effect

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Noun
  • The high court is expected to decide whether Mississippi can count ballots that are received up to five days late, with possible ramifications for dozens more states.
    Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 25 June 2026
  • And so the ramifications here are obviously wide-reaching and kind of an absolutely dystopian minefield, right?
    Joel Feder, The Drive, 24 June 2026
Noun
  • But its costs and aftereffects will likely linger for years.
    Scott Horsley, NPR, 17 June 2026
  • In other words, the aftereffects of COVID-19 are still present, according to Tara Leytham Powell, an associate professor of social work at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
    Kate Perez, Chicago Tribune, 16 May 2026
Noun
  • This software layer must manage data and model lifecycles while providing a cloud-native platform and resilient hypervisor to abstract away hardware complexities.
    Sam Rastogi, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
  • Chinese humanoid makers pay companies like X-Humanoid up to $150 an hour for physical interaction data, depending on the complexities of these chores, said Jiang Weilai, head of the facility X-Humanoid.
    John Liu, CNN Money, 30 June 2026
Noun
  • Sandra Cherfrere, an attorney and child of Haitian immigrants, highlighted the practical complications for families with children born abroad.
    Joan Murray, CBS News, 27 June 2026
  • GLP-1s have been shown to lower the risk of complications and improve symptoms in people with this form of heart failure.
    Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 26 June 2026
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