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effect

[ih-fekt] / ɪˈfɛkt /




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Their music was so good and you start singing the lyrics and there’s an osmosis effect of positivity that gets you.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026

But the researchers found no evidence of this second, positive effect.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 9, 2026

Unlike Mexico, Greer said, Canada “has a different approach to the United States. They have some retaliatory tariffs still in effect, and that makes it a problem for us to negotiate.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026

In recent data, “we can see the preferences tilt a little to more expensive home, and I suspect that that’s due to that wealth effect for those buyers,” Simonsen said in an accompanying video.

From Barron's • Jun. 9, 2026

She’d bewitched England while she was alive, and on canvas she had the same magnetic effect.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day




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