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repercussions
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    The minor run-in with Dussel had several repercussions, for which he had only himself to blame.†  (source)
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    So you think you pass as human, that you can exist here without any repercussions.†  (source)
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    There couldn't possibly be any repercussions, the lynchers thought.†  (source)
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    Casanova and I would take responsibility for any repercussions from the army brass.†  (source)
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    They are the poor that the army knows it can slaughter without repercussion.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-sion", 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 admission from admit, discussion from discuss, and invasion from invade.
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    I can imagine them as they rode, Henry still in the fierce repercussive flush of vindicated loyalty, and Bon, the wiser, the shrewder even if only from wider experience and a few more years of age, learning from Henry without Henry's being aware of it, what Sutpen had told him.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ive" converts a word into an adjective; though over time, what was originally an adjective often comes to be used as a noun. The adjective pattern means tending to and is seen in words like attractive, impressive, and supportive. Examples of the noun include narrative, alternative, and detective.
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    Annoyed, and still wading through the emotional repercussions, I sneered.†  (source)
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    He blamed himself for the accident, then kept on blaming himself for every decision that was made thereafter, every repercussion, every reverberation that clanged down through the years.†  (source)
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    Or rather, not all, since there is no all, no finish; it not the blow we suffer from but the tedious repercussive anti-climax of it, the rubbishy aftermath to clear away from of the very threshold of despair.†  (source)
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    What happens within this house after that may have considerable repercussions.†  (source)
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    Beyond all misuse, waste, pain, tragedy, death, confusion, unswerving necessity was on the rails; not a sparrow fell through the air but that its repercussion acted on his life, and the lonely light that fell upon the viscous and interminable seas at dawn awoke sea-changes washing life to him.†  (source)
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    I sat there frozen, staring at Sorrento's employee number, silently weighing the repercussions of what had just happened.†  (source)
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    His life seemed to have drawn near to eternity; every thought, word, and deed, every instance of consciousness could be made to revibrate radiantly in heaven; and at times his sense of such immediate repercussion was so lively that he seemed to feel his soul in devotion pressing like fingers the keyboard of a great cash register and to see the amount of his purchase start forth immediately in heaven, not as a number but as a frail column of incense or as a slender flower.†  (source)
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