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affect

Definition for affect

verb as in influence, affect emotionally

verb as in pretend, imitate

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He recalls his first psychiatric patient, a young woman whose remarkable recovery through medication left a lasting impression and underscored psychiatry's power to rebuild lives affected by mental illness.

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Gridlock, she observes, negatively affects legislative efforts to prevent economic crisis, which lowers expected returns and discourages corporate investment.

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Salesforce has an AI agent that helps customs specialists determine how changes to the tens of thousands of product categories that make up the U.S. customs system affect specific items.

That directive applies to Nexperia chips that the company has long sent for packaging and testing in China, potentially affecting its operations.

Of the latest tariff threats on China, he added, “The flare-up last week is an example of these things that can resurface very quickly and affect the outlook.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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