How to Use the upshot in a Sentence

the upshot

noun
  • And so, what's the upshot of all of this?
    — Dana Taylor, USA Today, 27 Mar. 2026
  • And so looking at the upshot of all of that is huge.
    — Ethan Varian, Mercury News, 23 Jan. 2026
  • What’s the upshot of the audit?
    — Joe Battenfeld, Boston Herald, 7 May 2026
  • But the upshot was that soon, the streets of Harlem were flooded with heroin.
    — Carol Sutton Lewis, Scientific American, 6 Apr. 2023
  • In hindsight, to Legler the upshot has been a lack of forethought by the Heat.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 4 Apr. 2023
  • But the point here, the upshot of a ranging talk with Illig, is Sporting might not stop there.
    — Sam McDowell, Kansas City Star, 13 Apr. 2025
  • That’s the upshot of the Journal article that inspired his lament.
    — Noah Rothman, National Review, 23 Jan. 2024
  • And while the network certainly won’t be alone in that slowly sinking boat, the upshot is hard to ignore.
    — Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 3 Oct. 2025
  • For him, the upshot is that imprinting does happen with this virus, but the impact isn’t deleterious.
    — Helen Branswell, STAT, 28 Mar. 2024
  • That’s the upshot of a new study on the alcohol content of the preferred foods of one of our closest living relatives.
    — Kate Wong, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Once upon a time if someone spread gossip or lies to a tabloid, the upshot was pure personal satisfaction and maybe vengeance.
    — Lucy Dolan-Zalaznick, Vogue, 12 Mar. 2025
  • That said, the faltering passing game is now almost impossible to overlook, and the upshot is splashed all over the scoreboard.
    — Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 27 Sep. 2024
  • But for others, especially younger people, the upshot is fewer entry-level tasks and a shrinking pool for jobs.
    — Tristan Bove, Fortune, 23 Jan. 2026
  • Still, the upshot of the two rulings means that both Blacklock and Busby will be unopposed in the primary.
    — John C. Moritz, Austin American Statesman, 15 Jan. 2026
  • Here’s the upshot for therapists and mental health professionals.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
  • Maybe that was a way of calming his nerves, but the upshot is to give him a disaffected air that’s almost Lou Reed adjacent.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 29 Apr. 2026
  • But the upshot for Miami, in terms of flexibility, would be enormous.
    — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 3 Jan. 2025
  • At least, that’s the upshot of Axios’s latest piece on the president’s outlook toward his reelection prospects.
    — Noah Rothman, National Review, 14 May 2024
  • Unfortunately, the upshot of finding more hazards that need to be fixed is more ugly sidewalk sheds that bother residents and tourists.
    — Mark Dent, thehustle.co, 14 Mar. 2025
  • Writers think the upshot of the studios’ demand is that they will be pushed to do more with less by executives beholden to shareholders rather than the creative process.
    — Erica Werner, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Sep. 2023
  • That’s the upshot of new research from prominent AI startup Anthropic.
    — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 16 Jan. 2024
  • Worse, if the Supreme Court accepts the theory that states should have control over federal land, the upshot could be devastating.
    — Wes Siler, Outside Online, 16 Sep. 2024
  • But the upshot is, this update gets a few things right that might have been difficult to nail 80 years ago, without betraying any of the things that were already indisputably on-point.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 27 May 2026
  • When those same renters feel unsafe going to work, the upshot is a crisis unfolding indoors — one that's less visible than arrests and detentions on the streets, but still deeply unnerving.
    — CBS News, 9 Feb. 2026
  • Burritt said the upshot is that his company, as a Nippon subsidiary, is freed from worries about geopolitical uncertainty.
    — Cory Schouten, semafor.com, 16 Apr. 2026
  • Yet even as Daisy Ridley acts with a wary urgency, the upshot is that Helena, raised not by wolves but by a kind of human wolf, is supposed to be a huntress to her bones.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 2 Nov. 2023
  • Complications ensue, but the upshot is that father and daughter decide to help the geese migrate to a sanctuary in North Carolina.
    — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
  • The scene Safer and friends encountered at the Nova festival memorial may have been different from that at the base and the kibbutz survivor hotel, but the upshot was the same.
    — Deborah Fineblum, Sun Sentinel, 3 Jan. 2024
  • His hair—blond and swept up like Bowie’s—caught the sun, his gold incisor glinting behind his grin (the upshot of a dental emergency along the Hippie Trail in Goa).
    — T. Coraghessan Boyle, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2025
  • If the upshot of all this were merely the shattered career dreams of a bunch of Gen X and millennial movie executives, this story probably wouldn’t have been written.
    — Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Oct. 2024

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