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adj.successful, persuasive

adj.in use at the time

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The adjective effective is applied to a person or a thing that has the power to, or which actually does, produce an effect: an effective boss, remedy, speech. Effectual is used especially of that which produces the effect desired or intended, or a decisive result: An effectual bombardment silenced the enemy. Efficacious suggests the capability of achieving a certain end: an efficacious plan, medicine. Efficient (applied also to persons) implies the skillful use of energy or industry to accomplish desired results with little waste of effort: efficient methods; an efficient manager.

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How to use effective in a sentence

A great way to identify effective keywords is by using Google Trends, one of the world’s largest real-time datasets.

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Leading website building tools – such as Wix, Weebly, and WordPress – use technology and analytics to build simple yet effective and useful websites.

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The manufacturers will need to prove vaccines are safe and effective in younger bodies.

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Quite often, these ads can prove effective in helping you gain new leads.

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We’ve rounded up some of the most effective local SEO strategies for small businesses in 2021 to help you get started.

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You fear not just what is in front of you, but what is yet to come, and that’s what makes this harrowing experience so effective.

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Limbaugh proved to be not only wildly popular but also cost-effective.

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Enough people develop immunity either naturally, which would require a large share of the population being infected and developing antibodies, or through an effective vaccine.

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Early in the pandemic, many of us bought cloth masks to help reduce spread while reserving more effective, medical-grade masks for people at higher risk, like doctors, first responders and so on.

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They are most effective playing exactly how they were built.

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