effect
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In effect, they offer the protection that an investor’s money can at least keep up with inflation, plus some extra.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
And, yes, it does cheekily employ its own famous masthead as part of the very special effect.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
Its immediate effect was to wipe out federal vehicle emissions standards.
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
Most of the rules that went into effect in July apply to graduate-school funding, but undergraduate loans now count toward a federal lifetime borrowing limit.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026
While radiation has a very real power to damage cells, the most likely effect of that damage is cell death.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
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The Shanghai-based contract chip maker said Thursday that it expects industrial momentum and the spillover effects generated by AI to persist, driving broad-based chip demand.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
The effects of boosting rainfall through cloud seeding remain uncertain, its consequences difficult to measure, and its large-scale application costly.
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
Mitchell’s special effects team has cleverly chosen to give the raptors mangy feathers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
The researchers also draw attention to the psychological effects of marine ecosystem loss.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026
In preparation for longer, narrative stories in which sound effects and music are incorporated, there are many children’s rhymes that tell stories and incorporate fun sounds.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
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"There is no distinction in authority or effect between a stoppage effected during the round and a stoppage effected between rounds or during the rest period."
From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2026
The deal will be effected through a court-sanctioned scheme of arrangement under United Kingdom law, requiring a 75% majority vote from Allfunds shareholders.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 21, 2026
In the end, Musk dictated the Grant’s terms, and the committee effected those wishes.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 31, 2024
Charlie Casa, a manager at the electricity company Ergon Energy, said almost 40,000 customers were without power Thursday, with the Port Douglas, Daintree and Mossman regions the worst effected.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 13, 2023
But finally, with a shrug and a worried “Ai, Chihuahua,” he climbed behind the wheel and effected another U-tum.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
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Working with the Rock Liberation Front offers the only clear means for effecting change.
From Salon ● Apr. 4, 2025
Toranaga names Blackthorne hatamoto, an honorific indicating high status earned through his courage in effecting Toranaga’s escape.
From New York Times ● Mar. 5, 2024
Meanwhile Mo Salah is back to his brilliant, unselfish and supportive best and has erased the sort of antics now effecting Luiz Diaz.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2023
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
We had about 15,000 men holding the line from the Khyber to Jelalabad; but in effecting this, 14,000 camels had perished, and several of the regiments had been more than decimated from sickness and exposure.
From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 by Various
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