Phrases to highlight results
- Interestingly, the results reveal …
- A somewhat surprising relationship was …
- An unexpected observation reported in section [X] was …
- While the expected finding was [X], this study showed …
- One interesting aspect that emerged from the analysis is …
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Phrases to discuss studies with similar results
- The results corroborate …
- The results are consistent with …
- These results are in line with those obtained by …
- These results provide support for [Author’s] theory that …
- Similar results were obtained in the experiment by …
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Phrases to discuss studies with different results
- In contrast to earlier findings of [Author], these results suggest …
- These results are not in line with those of [Authors], who found …
- Contrary to what has been reported by [Author], these results indicate …
- The results do not confirm previous research by [Author], which …
- Whereas [Author] found [X], these results indicate …
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Phrases to discuss study limitations
- These results need to be interpreted with caution, because …
- Given the study design, it was inevitable that …
- A limitation of the methodology used is …
- This study failed to account for …
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