effectively
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He actually turns 60 on 11 August, which has effectively rendered him ineligible for this year's Over-60s Cricket World Cup in Canada which starts a few days earlier.
From BBC • May 11, 2026
Without a big network of pipelines to carry U.S.-produced crude to California, the state is effectively cut off from the oil boom in Texas, New Mexico and other states.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 11, 2026
If the ice shelves weaken enough, they may no longer effectively slow the glaciers flowing into the ocean behind them.
From Science Daily • May 10, 2026
What once functioned as supplemental classroom software has effectively become critical educational infrastructure.
From Salon • May 9, 2026
So Sylva sylvarum is literally ‘the wood of woods’, but, effectively, The Lumber Yard.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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4.3: Origins and Impact of the Western European Empires in the North Atlantic (Sources 1–9)
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