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effect

[ih-fekt] / ɪˈfɛkt /




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He started seeing a therapist, but the state workers’ compensation agency denied the claim, arguing depression wasn’t a physiological effect of his injury.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 2, 2026

The findings suggest that genetic instability may not simply be a side effect of cancer.

From Science Daily 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 job, in effect, was to say “yes” every time some Wall Street trader asked him if he’d like to insure—and so, in effect, purchase—a billion-dollar pile of bonds backed by consumer loans.

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

One of the stranger effects of fame, Elizebeth discovered, was that the public started writing to you.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield

The BBC understands that Standard Chartered aims to move some of the effected workers to other roles in the business.

From BBC May 19, 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

Rather than fight, Nicolls and Stuyvesant effected a merger.

From Salon Mar. 15, 2025

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

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 31, 2024

In the case of the Heike crab it was effected more or less unconsciously by the fishermen, and certainly without any serious contemplation by the crabs.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

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

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

The hope of effecting a reformation among prisoners, by stripes and solitary cells, can never be realized.

From Recollections of Windsor Prison; Containing Sketches of its History and Discipline with Appropriate Strictures and Moral and Religious Reflection by Reynolds, John N.




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