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
In most cases, the combined effect actually suppresses the growth of cosmic structure.
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
They were now, in effect, the world’s biggest owners of subprime mortgage bonds.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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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
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
The school set out to help children overcome the effects of poverty and childhood trauma.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026
The treatment could take up to two years—much longer than the treatment for regular TB—and the side effects were often painful for patients.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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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
The judge said: "The traffic on this occasion was barely crawling and brought to a standstill while the arrests were effected."
From BBC ● 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
Berkshire’s attorney Craig Lavoie argued that it’s crucial to block a sale next year because it will be hard to determine just how much Pilot’s earnings have been effected by the alleged bribes.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 30, 2023
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
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Working with the Rock Liberation Front offers the only clear means for effecting change.
From Salon ● Apr. 4, 2025
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
As critical American institutions, they would thus be effecting important public values.
From Slate ● Jul. 20, 2023
After these had been corrected as far as possible, however, Mr. Baldwin finally succeeded in effecting a compromise settlement, and received from the Company $3500 for the machine.
From Illustrated Catalogue of Locomotives Baldwin Locomotive Works by Baird, Matthew
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