effectively
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The plan is to infect males — which don’t bite — with a bacteria called Wolbachia, which effectively renders them sterile.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2026
Now that it has become so prevalent on Wall Street, artificial intelligence has effectively exhausted any stock-market advantage it may have had, according to a comprehensive new study.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 2, 2026
These changes by index providers will effectively force index funds to buy massive quantities of stock—in a ridiculously short time—after a mega IPO.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2026
The average yield, or spread, that investors demand to hold the debt of tech-sector issuers, compared to their investment-grade peers, has risen from effectively zero this time last year to around 35 basis points.
From Barron's • Jun. 2, 2026
Put the other way round, our attention would have been held even more effectively had there been an underlying pull of simple narrative.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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