effect
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For Goldman, restrictions in the U.S. would have a ripple effect across diesel prices internationally, with each week of the ban lifting European diesel prices by just below 2%.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026
Insurance regulations limit lending to affiliated companies to prevent a domino effect of losses in insurer portfolios.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
"Being in nature has an amazing positive effect, immediate effect," he said.
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026
A county geologist asserted that the application should be denied because mining had been dormant at the site long before the state’s landmark surface mining law took effect in 1976.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026
“This war is Hitler’s fault. My displacement, Hitler’s fault. This gas mask I carry at all times”—I raise my voice for full effect —“Hitler’s fault!”
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
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It’s one of the first possible side effects associated with the popular medications that seems to give some patients pause.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026
Oleksandr Pestrykov, an advocacy expert from the Ukrainian House foundation in Warsaw, told AFP that Ukrainians in Poland were feeling the effects of the chilling relations personally.
From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026
Further experiments offered clues about how AMB-1 produces its effects.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 25, 2026
The higher doses also pose greater risk for adverse side effects.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026
For the most part, art is concerned with reflected light effects rather than with radiant light.
From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson
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Later on Wednesday, US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said the president will raise the global tariff to 15% in the coming days "where appropriate" but did not name which countries would be effected.
From BBC ● Feb. 25, 2026
External ritual gave way to interior experience, and this inward turn, Mr. Persico tells us, effected “one of the most momentous revolutions” in the history of the West.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2025
Rather than fight, Nicolls and Stuyvesant effected a merger.
From Salon ● Mar. 15, 2025
In the end, Musk dictated the Grant’s terms, and the committee effected those wishes.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 31, 2024
Children can feel, but they cannot analyse their feelings; and if the analysis is partially effected in thought, they know not how to express the result of the process in words.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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Working with the Rock Liberation Front offers the only clear means for effecting change.
From Salon ● Apr. 4, 2025
"You have companies that are reasonably similar, so when growth rates change it is effecting quite a few companies in a similar way," he says.
From BBC ● Mar. 26, 2025
Ambani, Asia's richest person, has previously said his children Isha, Akash and Anant would have significant roles in the business and that Reliance was "in the process of effecting a momentous leadership transition".
From Reuters ● Aug. 28, 2023
As critical American institutions, they would thus be effecting important public values.
From Slate ● Jul. 20, 2023
I have accordingly recommended it to the consideration of General Gage, and shall, on the arrival of the Shawanoes, Delawares, &c., here, do all in my power to pave the way for effecting it.
From The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada by Francis Parkman
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