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consequence as in: a direct consequence of
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Your decision will have three major consequences.
consequences = results
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Her job prospects are hindered as a consequence of the conviction.consequence = result
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The consequence of this is that I'm always finding humans at their best and worst. (source)
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And he was often frustrated as a consequence. (source)
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No one fails to suffer the consequences of everything under the sun. (source)consequences = effects
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I used wicked pharmaka to make Glaucos a god, and then I changed Scylla. I was jealous of his love for her and wanted to make her ugly. I did it selfishly, in bitter heart, and I would bear the consequence. (source)consequence = undesired effect
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Consequently, the Environmental Impact Statement conveniently disappeared from the city files. (source)Consequently = resultantly (as a result)
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Even the laxity of divorce regulations in the early years of the revolution was undoubtedly a revulsion from the nineteenth-century Victorian immobility of marriage and the consequent hypocrisy that developed from it. (source)consequent = following as a result
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Is action merely the incidental product of thought, or is thought the consequential product of action?† (source)consequential = resultant (as a result of something else)
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Because they imply very large consequences for human life. (source)consequences = effects (results)
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But an unanticipated consequence of this strategy was the creation of a new polis. (source)consequence = result
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...we also had to worry about the Jefferson Davis school bus zooming from behind and splashing us with the murky waters of the road. ... But sometimes ... we did not look back as often nor listen as carefully as we should; we consequently found ourselves comical objects to cruel eyes that gave no thought to our misery. (source)consequently = as a result
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In the sound of the drums I understood a vast pervading doom; but in the expectant silences between, my own disaster loomed larger, more consequent and more hurtful.† (source)consequent = following as a result
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You are hereby warned that any movement on your part not explicitly endorsed by verbal authorization on my part may pose a direct physical risk to you, as well as consequential psychological and possibly, depending on your personal belief system, spiritual risks ensuing from your personal reaction to said physical risk.† (source)consequential = resultant (as a result of something else)
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consequence as in: of little consequence
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Think carefully. This is a consequential decision.
consequential = important
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It is the most consequential tax legislation in decades.
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She is a consequential member of the faculty.consequential = important or significant
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Just bad luck. That's what you say. Of no consequence. That's what you make yourself believe—because deep down, you know that this small piece of changing fortune is a signal of things to come. (source)consequence = importance
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It was an uncharacteristic break from his cover that might easily have alerted his parents to his whereabouts, although the lapse proved to be of no consequence because the private investigator hired by Walt and Billie never caught the slip. (source)consequence = importance
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Cedric laughs, surprised to be looking down slightly at the teacher, who is consequential and wide-shouldered, and must be about five-foot-ten. (source)consequential = important
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Meanwhile, Hutu and Tutsi refugees outside Burundi and Rwanda became some of the principal and angriest keepers of the memories of massacre and injustice, and their camps became staging areas for opposition movements -- most consequentially, settlements of Rwandan Tutsis in Uganda and of Burundian Hutus in Tanzania. (source)consequentially = importantly
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Nina tried for a moment to recollect this visit with her husband to the Metropol; but then waved a hand as if to say whether or not they had been in the hotel all those years ago was of no consequence. (source)consequence = importance
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The pathos of this deplorable figure, with its innocent vanity and consequential air, touches Pickering, who has already straightened himself in the presence of Mrs. Pearce. (source)consequential = important
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He wrinkled lugubriously, consequentially, at the thought of the letters he would write to the heads of Government offices about "my old friend, Peter Walsh," and so on. (source)consequentially = self-importantly
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There's a sense of sovereignty that comes from life on a mountain, a perception of privacy and isolation, even of dominion. ... It's a tranquillity born of sheer immensity; it calms with its very magnitude, which renders the merely human of no consequence. (source)consequence = importance or significance
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He only remembered his face as he remembered all the faces he had ever seen; but he remembered, too, that it was one of the faces laid by in his memory in the immense class of the falsely consequential and poor in expression. (source)consequential = important
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But he was no longer of any consequence in the search for Charles Wallace. (source)consequence = importance
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The same pride one takes in more consequential tasks outside of prison one can find in doing small things inside prison.† (source)consequential = important
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