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fallout

 noun
     
fall‧out [uncountable]
1HP the dangerous radioactive dust which is left in the air after a nuclear explosion and which slowly falls to earth:
protection against radioactive fallout
2 the results of a particular event, especially when they are unexpected:
The political fallout of the affair cost him his job.
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