synergistic

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It leads to what Allen calls a “terrible synergistic effect” of people’s food being taken away and people getting sick because of it while health care is stripped away.

From Slate • Apr. 19, 2026

"We demonstrated that this synergistic effect is not a coincidence, but is based on a novel mode of action resulting from the simultaneous activation of different intracellular signaling pathways," says Prof. Arimura.

From Science Daily • Apr. 9, 2026

"Health effects of air pollution are synergistic manifestation of factors which include food habits, occupational habits, socio-economic status, medical history, immunity, heredity, etc," it said.

From Barron's • Dec. 3, 2025

This discovery points to what's known as a secondary, or synergistic, effect.

From Salon • Dec. 16, 2024

Second, there is the Hamiltonian confidence that the concentration of political and economic power was a dynamic force; it was not a threatening cluster of invasive corruption, but a synergistic fusion of developmental energies.

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