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The phrase "a collateral effect" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an unintended consequence or side effect of an action or decision.
Example: "The new policy had a collateral effect on employee morale, leading to increased dissatisfaction among staff."
Alternatives: "an unintended consequence" or "a side effect".
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A collateral effect of the Iraq war was Libya's nuclear disarmament.
Google's social circumvention had a collateral effect: it enabled Google to place its ordinary advertising tracking cookie.
A hypothesized benefit of this approach is that mand training has a collateral effect on nontargeted behavior, though empirical support for this hypothesis is currently tenuous.
A collateral effect of the attack is that internet users accustomed to high-speed connections may have seen those slow down, said James Blessing, a member of the UK Internet Service Providers Association ISPAPA) council.
On the one hand, both these transporters appear to be important for cellular processes other than multidrug resistance, and therefore resistance to xenobiotics could represent a collateral effect of the transporter's function.
"It could have a collateral effect on every other transaction," said Blair Levin, an adviser to New Street Research and a former chief of staff at the Federal Communications Commission.
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However, this phenotype could be considered as an undesirable collateral effect from a commercial point of view and transgenic lines showing occasional inflorescence reversion were discarded.
However, this phenotype could be considered as an undesirable collateral effect from a commercial point of view, for this reason, transgenic lines showing occasional inflorescence reversion were discarded.
"What I say to many of the Americans, 'It's in your interest to stop neglecting Latin America,' " said Mr. Santos, adding that the turmoil in North Africa and the Middle East might have a "positive collateral effect" of stirring interest closer to home.
It would probably have a salutary collateral effect: hindering renewals of violence on the Gaza-Israel border.
"ARC's research has uncovered a troubling collateral effect of these deportations: Thousands of children enter the child welfare system and are often stuck there". Ross Feinstein, a spokesman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said the agency had not reviewed the report.
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