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effect

[ih-fekt] / ɪˈfɛkt /




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It’s the latest effect forecast for what’s expected to be an historically strong event, one forecasters warn could also lash Southern California with powerful rain and broil both land and sea with punishing heat waves.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 10, 2026

While the higher reserve standard takes effect early next year, Fannie and Freddie increased scrutiny on condo sales starting last week by ending fast-track mortgage approval for condo buyers.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 9, 2026

Warren Davies, whose three-year-old daughter Ophelia-May has SMA type 2, external, said it felt like the Welsh government was "playing god because they have the opportunity to effect change and they are choosing not to".

From BBC Aug. 9, 2026

The findings, published in Nature Communications, suggest that reproducing this local effect could benefit patients whose tumors do not produce enough C3 naturally.

From Science Daily Aug. 8, 2026

The collars are designed to have a minimal effect on the pandas and thus on their behavior, and they don’t seem to mind wearing them.

From "Camp Panda" by Catherine Thimmesh

Any material that cannot be shot in front of a live studio audience — because of limitations with sets, timing or special effects — is shot the day before the live taping.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 10, 2026

The August 1945 assault by the United States killed more than 210,000 people, including many from the effects of radiation exposure.

From Barron's Aug. 9, 2026

The similarities observed in the meditation study do not mean that meditation and psychedelic drugs produce identical effects.

From Science Daily Aug. 9, 2026

The effects of the near-total closure of the Strait of Hormuz are compounded by expectations of a strong El Nino, which could disrupt harvests across key farming regions and further tighten global supplies.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 9, 2026

After the initial side effects wore off and they had stopped cursing my name, I told them what I had discovered the night before.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall

"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

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

The spokesperson urged all those effected by Hurricane Helene to apply for assistance.

From Salon Oct. 1, 2024

In the end, Musk dictated the Grant’s terms, and the committee effected those wishes.”

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 31, 2024

But much of the transformation was also effected as a result of plants’ selecting themselves.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

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

I shall be glad if what I have written be the means, by directing public attention to the subject, of effecting the correction of these errors.

From Flags: Some Account of their History and Uses. by Macgeorge, Andrew




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