effect
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The policy will remain in effect until at least Jan. 29, 2027.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026
A wave of artificial-intelligence adoption has come with an undesirable side effect: An explosion of cyberthreats.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 2, 2026
“We’ve had these elevated temperatures for the last several days here, and that compounding effect can be significant,” said Rose Schoenfeld, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2026
The case sparked a wider conversation about the effect of housing asylum seekers in hotels in British communities.
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026
The CDO was, in effect, a credit laundering service for the residents of Lower Middle Class America.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
Unicorns' effects can also be felt across the local economy, said Karolina Urbonaite, the head of Startup Lithuania, a government institution which supports the country's startup ecosystem.
From Barron's ● Aug. 2, 2026
"What we are seeing are the effects of climate change and it is catastrophic," said Galvin.
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026
AI’s positive effects extend to consumer gains beyond purchases and nonmarket goods, too, which are left out of GDP.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026
The school set out to help children overcome the effects of poverty and childhood trauma.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026
A few meters away, Nanuq was starting to feel the effects of the tranquilizer dart, and he paced around like his brain was getting foggy.
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
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
Rather than fight, Nicolls and Stuyvesant effected a merger.
From Salon ● Mar. 15, 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
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
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
We are "committed to effecting a seamless transition as we prepare to join Deloitte," the memo said.
From Reuters ● Oct. 10, 2023
As critical American institutions, they would thus be effecting important public values.
From Slate ● Jul. 20, 2023
The hypodermis is the immediate agent in effecting the external changes.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" by Various
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