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affecting

adjective as in moving

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“The affairs have always been going on, but now they’re getting discovered,” said Sarah Moore Johnson, an estate-planning lawyer in Washington, D.C., with expertise on how DNA testing is affecting inheritance claims.

They have been hit hard by a broader slump affecting the priciest and most-speculative corners of the market—from bitcoin to AI darlings such as CoreWeave.

Hundreds of N.I.H. grants and clinical trials were cancelled, affecting thousands of patients.

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As of Thursday, coming from any of those countries will be considered a “significantly negative factor” affecting a green-card application, similar to having committed a crime.

He had also claimed through his union that he was unable to be interviewed owing to ill health affecting his cognitive and physical abilities.

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