ultimate outcome

collocation in English

meaningsofultimateandoutcome

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ultimate
adjective[before noun]
uk
/ˈʌl.tɪ.mət/us
/ˈʌl.tə.mət/
most extreme or important because either the original or final, or the best ...
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outcome
noun[C usually singular]
uk
/ˈaʊt.kʌm/us
/ˈaʊt.kʌm/
a result or effect of an action, ...
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(Definition ofultimateandoutcomefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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This is tantamount to asking ever y witness simply to testify about what he (reasonably) thinks theultimateoutcomeof the trial should be.
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But theultimateoutcomeof many of these disputes is a separation or divorce.
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At the output end, quality of research products has to do with scientific achievements and inter mediate andultimateoutcomeor impact.
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These four types differed by the dominant type of prescribed activity (' consumer-based' or ' producer-based') andultimateoutcome(' defying age ' or ' prudentially minimising age-related risks').
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To place theultimateoutcomein such a chronological, causal sequence is not endow it with inevitability.
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Theultimateoutcomefor this cohort of patients is unknown.
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The percentage of smokers in the population is theultimateoutcomemeasure concerning the impact of the report.
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In a final, more conjectural, section of the paper we ponder theultimateoutcomeof the contest.
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If untreated, theultimateoutcomeis severe surfactant dysfunction and respiratory failure.
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Theultimateoutcomeof these activities will be beneficial to animals and humans alike.
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So symptom control may be even more important to patient well-being than control overultimateoutcome.
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Thus, in addition to governing theultimateoutcomeof a process, a top-ranked constraint may actually block a process altogether.
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The main reason is because there is a clear need to document the underlying links between a potential intervention (including a program or a policy) and health, theultimateoutcome.
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Irrespective of theultimateoutcome, there are certain requirements in the short term.
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Thus, this study provides additional evidence that the nature of the immune response, and not necessarily organism burden, is crucial in determining theultimateoutcomeof disease.
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In addition to timing, the repetition and duration of the separation stressors are also critical to theultimateoutcome, which may be highly pleomorphic, depending on the precise circumstances.
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Death, as theultimateoutcomeof despair, will induce an appropriate sympathetic reaction from the beloved (the tears and sighs mentioned in verses three and four).
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Of course, theultimateoutcomewill depend primarily on the election results.
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The outcome may be decisive in electoral terms, but theultimateoutcomewill be more difficult to predict.
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