Issue and Offshoot

Issue

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

Usage example: one of the issues of the Civil War was a resolution to the question of states' rights

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Offshoot and issue are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Offshoot" instead a noun "Issue".

Nearby Words: issued, issuing, issuance, issuer

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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Issue and offshoot are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Issue" instead a noun "Offshoot".

similar	similar issue	similar offshoot
common	common issue	common offshoot
original	original issue	original offshoot
small	small issue	small offshoot
Other adjectives: actual, little, infamous, famous, new, early, later, latest, different, controversial, comic, earlier, technical.

As of the most recent issue of Justice League Generation Lost, Ice suddenly has been retconned to be a member of a Scandinavian Romani offshoot that are all conmen and thieves except for her immediate family, who fled the lifestyle to prevent her grandfather from using her ice powers for robbery.

Source: Useful Notes / Romani
National Labor Party — a short-lived offshoot of Labor, formed in 1916 from members expelled from the party over the issue of conscription... including the then-Prime Minister, Billy Hughes.

Source: Useful Notes / Australian Politics
Also parodied in an April issue, where a joke article on minor secret societies included the Wizards of the Black Teddy: an all-female offshoot of Krynn's Black Robes, who dress like dominatrices in defiance of High Sorcery's usual dominance by stuffy old men.

Source: Chainmail Bikini

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