outcome

In a sentence

Six example sentences with outcome, each labelled with its topic.

• The trial measured one outcome above all others: how many patients could climb a flight of stairs afterward.

  Medicine

• Nobody predicted the outcome of the auction, where a quiet regional bidder outlasted two firms with far deeper pockets.

  Economics

• Students who write down a target outcome before studying report less anxiety than those who simply read until midnight.

  Psychology

• The outcome was decided at the free throw line, where the visitors missed nine in the final quarter.

  Basketball

• The outcome of the appeal surprised both sides, since the judges reversed on a point neither lawyer had argued.

  Law

• The only outcome that mattered from the pilot was whether the ten test stores reordered, and eight of them did.

  Startups

Found in these word lists

Each source is a published word list that contains outcome. No exam board publishes an official GRE, GMAT or SAT list; GMAT words come from GRE lists and the Academic Word List.

More Academic words

• compute
• coherent
• version
• repertoire
• rigorous
• exploited
• clarify
• reinforce
• coordination
• affecting
• ambiguous
• adjusted