effect
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Shaikh said they wanted to see the right to roam enshrined in the law as it was in Scotland when the Land Reform Act came into effect in 2005.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
Neither said what follows: If these systems are indeed minds, we need to study them as such—but almost nobody is doing so, to increasingly dangerous effect.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
In another 2013 study, Swedish researchers found that singing has a biologically soothing effect, especially on cardiovascular function.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026
This small sideways displacement is the optical equivalent of the Magnus effect that makes a spinning table tennis ball curve through the air.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 2026
For effect, she gave a little shake on the leash ends of the TOT, just as if they were a set of reins attached to a pony’s bridle.
From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood
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The Fed has held rates steady since January, choosing to wait to gauge the effects of energy price shocks and to let the tariffs' effects on prices ripple through the economy.
From Barron's ● Sep. 13, 2026
“Towns that adopted prisons earlier in the prison boom received a short-term boon compared to those that did not build, but the effects were not lasting,” Eason wrote.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026
This century, the effects powering the ’90s debt reduction reversed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
Those differences suggest that semaglutide may be doing more than simply recreating the effects of eating less.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 12, 2026
My personal effects in tow, the three of us walk next door where Theo has, as I’d hoped and predicted, left his door unlocked.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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If the civil-rights revolution was primarily effected by patient application of the laws, “By Any Means” suggests some of its reforms came about via the impatient application of fists.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
Later on Wednesday, US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said the president will raise the global tariff to 15% in the coming days "where appropriate" but did not name which countries would be effected.
From BBC ● Feb. 25, 2026
In the end, Musk dictated the Grant’s terms, and the committee effected those wishes.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 31, 2024
Charlie Casa, a manager at the electricity company Ergon Energy, said almost 40,000 customers were without power Thursday, with the Port Douglas, Daintree and Mossman regions the worst effected.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 13, 2023
But finally, with a shrug and a worried “Ai, Chihuahua,” he climbed behind the wheel and effected another U-tum.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
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Working with the Rock Liberation Front offers the only clear means for effecting change.
From Salon ● Apr. 4, 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
You see, with every other officer excluded under the provision, the state official or state court effecting that exclusion would feel the political costs of their decision alone.
From Slate ● Dec. 20, 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 John N. Reynolds
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