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effectuate

[ih-fek-choo-ayt] / ɪˈfɛk tʃuˌeɪt /


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“The board’s only credible path forward is to engage and work with me, one of lululemon’s largest shareholders, to effectuate substantial change,” Wilson said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026

To effectuate this design, the text of the 26th Amendment establishes a broad constitutional prohibition on all forms of voting discrimination against adult voters on account of age.

From Slate ● Mar. 26, 2024

It's part of the reason why I'm in policy school right now because I needed to understand how laws are made, how people actually effectuate change.

From Salon ● Mar. 16, 2024

She added that while "the number of people who have federal offences are very low, a pardon at the federal level doesn't effectuate the kind of record clearance we want to see".

From BBC ● Dec. 22, 2023

Germany irrevocably recognizes the full authority of this commission, agrees to supply it with all the necessary information and to pass legislation to effectuate its findings.

From World's War Events Volume 3 Beginning with the departure of the first American destroyers for service abroad in April, 1917, and closing with the treaties of peace in 1919. by Allen L. (Allen Leon) Churchill

“A lot of this is going to have to be effectuated through policy if we want to see this standardized across the labs,” Purser added.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 19, 2026

A White House spokesperson said of the cuts at the time that EI-ISAC’s work no longer effectuated the priorities of the Department of Homeland Security.

From Salon ● May 21, 2026

“Every time we’ve seen change occur it’s been effectuated from a revelation that has shocked people’s conscience, and that has been the motivator for change,” Walsh said.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 29, 2021

Roberts drew on the fact that the common law recognized what he called a “mere-touch rule”: the use of force effectuated a seizure, however slight.

From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2021

The Great Depression effectuated a sea change in American race relations and party alignment.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

His work continued, along with a few others, thanks to support from Murmur, an organization designed to support labels and industry names, effectuating the commitments made when the Music Climate Pact was signed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026

But they’ve argued that the new text, which would treat any person “responsible for regularly providing any services effectuating transfers of digital assets” as brokers is still too expansive.

From Slate ● Aug. 3, 2021

ISS centers its recommendations around whether the activists have made a compelling case that change is warranted and, if so, which nominees are more likely to succeed at effectuating the change.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 15, 2018

"We have had unprecedented success at effectuating the President’s agenda," Sessions said.

From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2018

By degrees truth will find its way to them from sources in which they will confide, and their aversion to removal may be overcome as fast as the means of effectuating it shall accrue.

From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921 by Various




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