in effect

Example Sentences

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This, in effect, makes it even more important that Tuchel puts a line-up on the pitch against Costa Rica that is as close as possible to the one that will face Croatia.

From BBC • Jun. 6, 2026

Mr. Goodspeed’s historical record is, in effect, a training data set, with droughts, strikes, shipping disruptions, credit contractions and policy errors, each tagged by type, geography and sequence.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

He had said, in effect: “I found this contractor myself. He worked on the pool at my golf club.”

From Slate • Jun. 4, 2026

Their mother made Jerry her health proxy and Arnold the executor of her will, forcing in effect their cooperation.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 3, 2026

Waldseemüller’s world map of 1507, the first to include the name ‘America’, the first to show the New World as, in effect, a new continent, and the first to show antipodes.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton