positive outcome
collocation in Englishmeaningsofpositiveandoutcome
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positive
adjective
uk/ˈpɒz.ə.tɪv/us/ˈpɑː.zə.t̬ɪv/
full of hope and confidence, or giving cause for hope ...
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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 ofpositiveandoutcomefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Reinforcement may thus be socially discounted; that is, the reinforcing efficacy of apositiveoutcome occurring to another person may decrease as social distance increases.
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By contrast, grants have apositiveoutcomeon the enrolment of low-income groups, and a neutral outcome for mid- to high-income groups.
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Our approach is to target processes that are essential to development, are modifiable, and may contribute topositiveoutcome.
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Indeed, the first performance is again significant, as apositiveoutcomemay well speed up this process whilst a more negative outcome could impair it.
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What was thepositiveoutcomeof this tragedy?
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Thus, bilingualism has apositiveoutcomedepending on the status of the languages involved.
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Patients with greater baseline drug use have a lower probability of apositiveoutcome.
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However, apositiveoutcomewould suggest that lexical feedback occurs.
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This must be apositiveoutcomein its own right.
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Whether this higher expenditure is seen as apositiveoutcomedepends on what the greater expenditure goes towards.
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That argument explains thepositiveoutcomebut not how groupthink could be paired with it.
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At the theoretical level, the article paired groupthink with apositiveoutcomeand sought to explain that result theoretically.
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Even though there remained problems to be solved, this was apositiveoutcome.
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Positive wellbeing results when all the enabling factors work together, while conversely any obstacle, even apparently minor, can prevent apositiveoutcome.
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When the mostpositiveoutcomewas assumed for all drop-outs, no significant differences were found between groups for the outcome measures.
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Regarding government audits it is clear that apositiveoutcomeof an audit strengthens the legitimacy of an institution.
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The adoption of narratives as a research mechanism constitutes a verypositiveoutcomein language teaching research.
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