effect
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That is because there tends to be less job switching in jobs held by people with higher levels of education—the seats at the table don’t empty as frequently, in effect.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026
The effect relies on the same basic behavior that can cause the bottom edge of a cut T-shirt to curl upward.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026
He says those sourcing fake versions are in effect behaving as lab rats without any medical oversight.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
Trump’s post won’t have an effect on the Fed, according to Stephen Myrow, managing partner at Beacon Policy Advisors.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 4, 2026
As a matter of fact, the news had the opposite effect upon us.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
A conversation about the spiritual and societal effects of the technology is desperately needed, said Brad Littlejohn, an Anglican Christian and program director at American Compass, a think tank aligned with the vice president.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026
The researchers also believe the effects may not be limited to what happens directly inside the brain.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026
Doctors are becoming increasingly worried about the side effects they are seeing amongst users of these counterfeit weight-loss drugs.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
"A lot of people are going to get replaced, not just actors: crew members, visual effects supervisors," the 65-year-old, who picked up a lifetime achievement award in Venice on Wednesday, told the audience.
From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 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
External ritual gave way to interior experience, and this inward turn, Mr. Persico tells us, effected “one of the most momentous revolutions” in the history of the West.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2025
Rather than fight, Nicolls and Stuyvesant effected a merger.
From Salon ● Mar. 15, 2025
Over the years, habitat loss, poaching and collisions with overhead power lines have effected great Indian bustards.
From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2024
In the end, Musk dictated the Grant’s terms, and the committee effected those wishes.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 31, 2024
But much of the transformation was also effected as a result of plants’ selecting themselves.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
Working with the Rock Liberation Front offers the only clear means for effecting change.
From Salon ● Apr. 4, 2025
We are "committed to effecting a seamless transition as we prepare to join Deloitte," the memo said.
From Reuters ● Oct. 10, 2023
As critical American institutions, they would thus be effecting important public values.
From Slate ● Jul. 20, 2023
The pangrams from yesterday’s Spelling Bee were effecting and infecting.
From New York Times ● May 12, 2023
Why, as a general thing, do we only succeed in effecting that which is mechanically impossible?
From Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants by Camille Flammarion
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Jim Burke's Academic Vocabulary List
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