effect
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The measures are due to take effect in December.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
BBC Transport correspondent Katy Austin said the disruption caused a "ripple effect", with some trains outside the area directly affected - including the Midlands - impacted.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
Paramount’s commitments take effect from the completion of its deal with Warner Bros. and will remain in place for five years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
Higher prices have a more generalized effect on economic growth, which can’t be attributed to specific products.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
Eight would hit the quarantine line by tomorrow morning, just as Kennedy’s order to stop ships went into effect.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
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Moderna’s study found that mFlusiva carries a higher risk of fatigue, headache, and other side effects than earlier vaccines.
From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2026
The NHS must prepare for the effects of heatwaves each year in the same way that it plans for cold weather in the winter, the health secretary has said.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
Serious side effects were uncommon, and none were attributed to either medication.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 6, 2026
But there are potential ripple effects that could spook even staid investors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
The title was rambling, but the message was succinct: if you mixed the effects of three to five variant genes on any trait, you could generate nearly perfect continuity in phenotype.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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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
However, the spy agency did not name the firms effected and or suggest that North Korea was able to obtain anything of value.
From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2024
In the end, Musk dictated the Grant’s terms, and the committee effected those wishes.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 31, 2024
We wouldn't put it past the artist to have effected a misdirect about anything made public, which would be just another opportunity to make a subversive statement.
From Salon ● Nov. 23, 2023
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
That seems downright quaint now; the rip-off they are effecting is at such a bigger scale, and we hardly have time to pay attention to it.
From Slate ● Mar. 28, 2025
Buchan has not just achieved a clean-up in his own back yard - he is effecting change across great swathes of an enormous country.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2024
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
With the lengthening days our hopes of effecting an escape increased.
From A Lad of Grit A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea in Restoration Times by Westerman, Percy F. (Percy Francis)
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