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The phrase "a welcome side effect" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing an unintended but positive outcome of an action or situation.
Example: "While the primary goal of the new policy was to increase productivity, a welcome side effect was the improvement in employee morale."
Alternatives: "a pleasant byproduct" or "a beneficial consequence".
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But the shortage of funds turned out to have a welcome side effect.
"Size is a welcome side effect of our actions, but it is not the core objective," he said.
A welcome side effect of such a strategy is that it plucks a family out of the New York vacation rat race.
And eating insect-resistant veggies will not make us insect-resistant (though come to think of it that might be a welcome side effect).
Previous research had detected similar inverse correlations between allergies and brain tumours, suggesting that a welcome side effect of allergy was resistance to cancer.
Because the new format is COARDS and CF-1.0 compliant, the files can be read by any general-purpose program capable of decoding these standards; a welcome side effect.
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We think, "Yes, when I'm happy, I'm a hot air balloon that could go to space". Happiness, as Dr. Barbara Fredrickson discovered, is not simply a welcomed side effect of evolution.
That's a welcome side-effect of Twilight".
A welcome side-effect of the project is that it has sparked a burst of serious Massive Attack-tivity.
A welcome side-effect of this modification is that the force calculation, which now treats a larger fraction of the local interactions exactly, is significantly more accurate than the unmodified method.
"If people want to reveal who they voted for, who are we to stop them, and if this leads to enthusing others to do the same, that's a welcome side-effect".
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