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effect

[ih-fekt] / ɪˈfɛkt /




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The elected MPs will have the task of fulfilling what is in effect a manifesto.

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026

CLF attorney Adam Reynolds told AFP that it is the "compounding effect of pollution that's really significant" in a historically industrial area.

From Barron's ● Oct. 26, 2026

To estimate the effect of its policies, the Federal Open Market Committee must predict how other rates will respond.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026

But would disabling Mitch have a similar effect in human cells?

From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026

The loans carried, in effect, government guarantees; if the homeowners defaulted, the government paid off their debts.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

There have so far been "very little knock-on effects from higher energy prices," ING economist Carsten Brzeski told AFP.

From Barron's ● Oct. 26, 2026

Fewer participants who took divarasib dropped out of the trial due to side effects than those who received the existing drugs, Roche said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026

The mysterious effects of L. asiatica illustrate just how much remains to be learned about the fungal kingdom.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2026

"We can test systems for unfair outcomes, improve the data and objectives they use, and introduce safeguards to reduce these effects."

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026

A few meters away, Nanuq was starting to feel the effects of the tranquilizer dart, and he paced around like his brain was getting foggy.

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz

It effected the way it was played too.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026

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

Rather than fight, Nicolls and Stuyvesant effected a merger.

From Salon ● Mar. 15, 2025

However, the spy agency did not name the firms effected and or suggest that North Korea was able to obtain anything of value.

From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2024

It was so much worse than if it had been a physical sickness, for which a cause might be known, medicine given, a cure effected.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey

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

Toranaga names Blackthorne hatamoto, an honorific indicating high status earned through his courage in effecting Toranaga’s escape.

From New York Times ● Mar. 5, 2024

You see, with every other officer excluded under the provision, the state official or state court effecting that exclusion would feel the political costs of their decision alone.

From Slate ● Dec. 20, 2023

An ice-bag placed over the inguinal region is locally beneficial to deep-seated pelvic inflammations, and, according to Braun, is capable of effecting a rapid fall of temperature.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various


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