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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
end result
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Despite all our efforts, the end result was a product that no one could use.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And the end result is really rather good.
▪ In this example the end result is five layers, two containing salt fingers and three with isothermal concentration-driven convection.
▪ No matter how he strutted and screamed, the end result was more like watching performance art than hearing a concert.
▪ The end result is a little like leaving your headlights on all night and expecting the car to start in the morning.
▪ The end result is a music in which rhythm and pattern dominate.
▪ The end result of evolution through man's desire was to produce a sexually mature wolf pup.
▪ The causes of incontinence may vary, but the end result is nearly always the same.
▪ With brute force techniques ... they do achieve about the same end result as we do with much more sophisticated techniques.

Usage examples of "end result".

But the end result is that the transporter cannot maintain a standing wave guide (the convex surface reflecting its energy divergently).

It was true that treasures were sometimes found or discovered, but most often they were the end result of greed, plunder, willful extraction .

The meeting was the end result of not one, but two distinct Prophecies, and even if he could persuade one of them that there had been a mistake someplace, the other would drive him to the confrontation without mercy or the slightest consideration for his personal feelings.

It was only as he approached the end result of that first long conversation that he faltered and the shell of his Observers objectivity showed cracks.

It was only as he approached the end result of that first long conversation that he faltered and the shell of his Observer's objectivity showed cracks.

Could life intervene to save life, when the end result would be extinction, or did nature know best?

Culture is a strange thing, Jake, but it usually spells out to pretty much the same in the end result.

The end result of the process of doing that with the thoughts was that I was no longer annoyed by the thoughts, first of all, and second, I found myself much more able to be as without thoughts as I've ever gotten.

The end result of this process, when all our normal mental faculties have with­.

At least this way we could pass it off as the end result of due process instead of leaving the impression that we’.

At least this way we could pass it off as the end result of due process instead of leaving the impression that we'd just shot her out of hand and dumped her in a shallow grave.

What Jimmy had seen was the next-to-end result of seven years of intensive trial-and-error research.

Shock and Awe are therefore not immediate either in application or in producing the end result.