affective
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"But for people who have a profound effect at this time of year, when they get significantly depressed, then those are the kinds of people that we might say are experiencing seasonal affective."
From BBC • Feb. 5, 2026
"Targeting these specific neural circuits could become an effective and more localized strategy to treat affective disorders," Lerma concludes.
From Science Daily • Nov. 4, 2025
The FBI has shared photos of the small drone which on Thursday collided with a plane known as a "Super Scooper", one of the world's most affective firefighting aircrafts, briefly grounding it.
From BBC • Jan. 12, 2025
On top of this endorsement of irony, Berlant also theorized a post-irony characterized by meaningful sincerity, allowing us to patch or bridge the affective conflicts of public life that can’t be resolved through ironic detachment.
From Salon • Nov. 29, 2024
Interestingly, there is often an affective connection between music and the emotions, and musical intelligence may share common thinking processes with mathematical intelligence.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
Vocabulary lists containing affective
"Simon's Saga," Vocabulary from Episode 7
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This Week In Culture: October 5–11, 2019
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Dicey's Song
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