effectively

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But stock valuations still look very stretched when measured against the effectively risk-free return that investors can get by holding U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 22, 2026

Talks on ending Europe's biggest conflict since World War II remain frozen, while fighting on the front line is effectively at a standstill.

From Barron's • Jun. 21, 2026

At the same time, several countries with relatively modest production volumes were found to be highly exposed to random disruptions and lacked sufficient resilience to respond effectively.

From Science Daily • Jun. 20, 2026

At the time of Andrea's death, Nix was a teenager known as Janice Thomas and was in a relationship with the children's father and was effectively their stepmother, the court heard.

From BBC • Jun. 19, 2026

Franklin’s endorsement of the petition from the Pennsylvania Abolition Society effectively assured that the preferred Madisonian strategy—calmly receiving these requests, then banishing them to the congressional version of oblivion—was not going to work.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis