Backlash and Effect

Backlash

Backlash noun - A movement back from an impact.

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Effect and backlash are semantically related In some cases you can use "Effect" instead a noun "Backlash".

Effect noun - A condition or occurrence traceable to a cause.

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Backlash and effect are semantically related in result topic. Sometimes you can use "Backlash" instead a noun "Effect".

similar	similar backlash	similar effect
common	common backlash	common effect
obvious	obvious backlash	obvious effect
real	real backlash	real effect
Other adjectives: great, huge, bad, main, major, immediate, possible, minor, apparent, negative, significant, magical.

While most curses can simply be dispelled and cease to have an effect, dispelling some of the more powerful ones can cause a backlash as bad or worse than just leaving the curse on.

Source: Curse Is Foiled Again
Neutrality Backlash: Horus uses the planet Bastion to demonstrate that this trope is in full effect in Age of Darkness.

Source: Literature / Horus Heresy
JesuOtaku expected this to happen after his lukewarm reviews of (the enormously popular) Neon Genesis Evangelion and Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann—saying something to the effect of "I need to go hide from the Loony Fans now" at the end of each—but there wasn't much backlash.

Source: He Panned It, Now He Sucks

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