Sample sentences for RAMIFICATIONS

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Definition

complications that result from an initial action — typically unintended consequences

Much more rarely, ramification can reference the act of branching out; or part or all of branching parts.

the court's decision had many unforeseen ramifications

Does anyone see negative ramifications if we implement this suggestion?
This was the ultimate belief on which all the systems elaborated by human thought in almost all their ramifications rested.
Leo Tolstoy -- Anna Karenina
He considered the ramifications before reaching into his pocket for his cell phone.
Nicholas Sparks -- The Best of Me
Holabird was as much bewildered as Tubbs would have been by the ramifications of Martin's work.
Sinclair Lewis -- Arrowsmith
In all its ramifications, my darling.
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Identity
In an instant they all knew the ramifications.
Dave Eggers -- The Circle
How could I have told you anything about a transcontinental railroad, unless you knew all the details and ramifications?
Ayn Rand -- Atlas Shrugged
My mind raced with the ramifications.
James Patterson -- 1st to Die
JFK's commitment has far-reaching ramifications.
Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard -- Killing Kennedy
In the ramifications of party doctrine she had not the faintest interest.
George Orwell -- 1984
These pains appeared to flash along well defined lines of ramification and to beat with an inconceivably rapid periodicity.
Ambrose Bierce -- An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)

These strange customs had ramifications, some of which I had still shied away from.
Robert A. Heinlein -- Glory Road
These ramifications of pipes with their hundred elbows imitated those old leafless vine-stocks which writhe over the fronts of old farm-houses.
Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables
'I don't know the ramifications of this operation, but I can obviously piece together several basic objectives, especially one.
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Supremacy
Judge, what are the legal ramifications?
Tom Clancy -- The Hunt for Red October
Granted, a dream with some pretty crazy ramifications, but just a dream.
Ted Dekker -- Black: The Birth of Evil
The ramifications of the ceremony were dawning on Dill, and he fought hard for the role.
Harper Lee -- Go Set a Watchman
What in the world is this about, I'm wondering, afraid to even consider the ramifications of something like this.
Melody Carlson -- Becoming Me
My temporary pyramid insanity, clearly, had serious and far-flung ramifications.
Sarah Dessen -- Dreamland

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