effect
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Flood warnings are in effect along the L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2026
The net effect is that cartel income increases.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026
This year's El Niño has become the strongest on record and is expected to have a knock-on effect on the climate into next year.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026
The intention is not to show the audience who Zuckerberg is — Sorkin spent one film doing that already; it’s to assess the trickle-down effect of his spinelessness.
From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2026
Dad glances back over his shoulder, obviously glad to see his little show has had its intended effect.
From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz
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The IMF has warned that the effects of the shock have been unequal, with developing countries reliant on imported energy hit the hardest.
From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 2026
The FTC concedes as much, stating in its August enforcement bulletin that “the extent to which businesses currently use personalized pricing is not well understood, and the effects of personalized pricing on consumers are unclear.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026
“There are so many ripple effects once somebody is detained, and we’re really feeling it in L.A.,”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2026
However, the experiments were conducted in mice, and the same effects have not yet been established in humans through this research.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026
"You were changed by the flower itself—I wasn't. Daoud's perfume contained impurities, so the effects were never going to be the same. Just think about it," she said as she rolled her sleeve back down.
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
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If the civil-rights revolution was primarily effected by patient application of the laws, “By Any Means” suggests some of its reforms came about via the impatient application of fists.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
The judge said: "The traffic on this occasion was barely crawling and brought to a standstill while the arrests were effected."
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2024
In the end, Musk dictated the Grant’s terms, and the committee effected those wishes.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 31, 2024
Charlie Casa, a manager at the electricity company Ergon Energy, said almost 40,000 customers were without power Thursday, with the Port Douglas, Daintree and Mossman regions the worst effected.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 13, 2023
In the case of the Heike crab it was effected more or less unconsciously by the fishermen, and certainly without any serious contemplation by the crabs.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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Working with the Rock Liberation Front offers the only clear means for effecting change.
From Salon ● Apr. 4, 2025
"You have companies that are reasonably similar, so when growth rates change it is effecting quite a few companies in a similar way," he says.
From BBC ● Mar. 26, 2025
Ambani, Asia's richest person, has previously said his children Isha, Akash and Anant would have significant roles in the business and that Reliance was "in the process of effecting a momentous leadership transition".
From Reuters ● Aug. 28, 2023
As critical American institutions, they would thus be effecting important public values.
From Slate ● Jul. 20, 2023
This class of Magic also is independent of the conception of an agent effecting the connection between the objects related as cause and effect.
From The Psychological Origin and the Nature of Religion by James H. (James Henry) Leuba
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