affect
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These contrasting patterns reveal that climate change is affecting tropical forests in uneven ways rather than producing uniform outcomes.
From Science Daily
So abrasive are its words and affecting its tune that the agnostic and irreverent journalist H.L.
“There wasn’t a robust empirical analysis of: How do child care prices affect fertility rates?”
From Salon
This organization’s ostensible goal is to “promote stability, restore dependable and lawful governance, and secure enduring peace in areas affected or threatened by conflict.”
From Salon
It helped repair weakened signaling between neurons and restored associative memory, one of the earliest cognitive abilities affected by Alzheimer's.
From Science Daily
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