All 3 Uses
repercussions
in
This Lullaby, by Sarah Dessen
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- And we instituted this new policy, so the repercussions for being late are brutal.†
Chpt 5 *
- Repercussions are brutal.†
Chpt 5
- I kept thinking we should roll down the window, say something to let them know we were there, but already it seemed too late to do so without repercussions.†
Chpt 14
Definitions:
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(repercussions) indirect or secondary effects of an action -- typically negative effects
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Much more rarely, repercussions may be used in place of reverberations or echoes to reference reflected sound. It can also (usually in the singular form) reference a rebound or movement back from an impact. Other more specialized senses exist in physics and music.