affected
Example Sentences
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Businesses affected by the massive fire that wrecked a historic building on Glasgow's Union Street have until the end of Sunday to apply for financial support.
From BBC • Apr. 4, 2026
Cyclone Ditwah, the worst disaster since the 2004 Asian tsunami, killed 641 people and affected almost the entire country late last year.
From Barron's • Apr. 4, 2026
That risk increases to 10 percent if a parent or sibling is affected, and rises to 50 percent for identical twins.
From Science Daily • Apr. 3, 2026
What’s also true is that 21st century markets can be affected by speculators’ attention, much as wheat crops can be affected by the attention of locust swarms.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026
The third child I collected affected me the most.
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
