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consequential

 adjective
     
con‧se‧quen‧tial [usually before noun] formal
1 happening as a direct result of a particular event or situation:
redundancy and the consequential loss of earnings
2 important [= significant; ≠ inconsequential]:
a consequential decision
—consequentially adverb
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