actual outcome
collocation in Englishmeaningsofactualandoutcome
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actual
adjective[before noun]
uk/ˈæk.tʃu.əl/us/ˈæk.tʃu.əl/
existing ...
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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 ofactualandoutcomefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofactual outcome
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More can be said or explained about theactualoutcomethan can be gotten from the rationality of the agents.
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The patient stated a clearactualoutcomethat was expressed in behavioural terms.
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In cases where executives impose a constitution, my theory may still account for legislators' preferences, but not necessarily for theactualoutcome.
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The team directly involved then describes theactualoutcomeof their difficult case.
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The table also compares theactualoutcomewith the logical prediction if the goal of each president had been to lock in the status quo.
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It is theactualoutcomewhich makes it clear to a child why a test sentence is true.
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The outcome of the modeling is then compared with theactualoutcomepresented in a ten-year follow-up study (8).
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The first was to use a data-based prior probability of reliability as a cutoff point to develop a two-by-two table of predicted v.actualoutcome.
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Generalizations can be drawn across studies as we did during our review but in the end it would be difficult to predict theactualoutcomefor a novel host-parasite combination.
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These irregularities are causing serious doubts about theactualoutcomeof these elections.
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These men, trained in times when all was smooth, whatever their qualities, have, in theactualoutcome, shown limitations, and they have been disastrous leaders.
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Had they known that this would be theactualoutcome, they might have voted "no" to that question.
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That would be theactualoutcomeof such a proposal.
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But when we compare our declarations of intent with theactualoutcome, the picture begins to cloud over.
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That has nothing to do with theactualoutcomethat resulted from these objections.
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I can only welcome his support for theactualoutcome.
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Then there is theactualoutcome; the things that are achieved in my area.
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Such a priority should, of course, be seriously taken into account initially in the context of competitions for posts, but it must not constrain theactualoutcomein practice.
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