Cause and Offshoot

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Cause noun - Someone or something responsible for a result.

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Offshoot is an antonym for cause.

Nearby Words: caused, causation, causeless, causative, causal

Offshoot noun - Something that naturally develops or is developed from something else.

Usage example: opened a shop selling fancy foods as an offshoot of their very successful restaurant

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Cause is an antonym for offshoot.

human	human cause	human offshoot
good	good cause	good offshoot
common	common cause	common offshoot
natural	natural cause	natural offshoot
Other adjectives: direct, original, actual, evil, little, new, unknown, different.

Although the fact she had her own offshoot Disney Channel movie reprising her High School Musical role just a few months later doesn't exactly help her cause.

Source: Music / Ashley Tisdale

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