effect
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If they can’t, the new 50% levies and retaliatory Canadian measures are expected to go into effect after midnight Eastern time.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 21, 2026
"This effect was also observed in germ-free mice, suggesting that butyrate can establish a lasting intestinal environment that does not depend on continuous microbial stimulation."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 21, 2026
Stephen McCabe, who has led Inverclyde's minority Labour-led council almost exclusively since 2007, believes its repopulation plan is beginning to take effect.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the government could increase bond buybacks to bring down yields, but the reassurances had little effect.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
But today, I thought, standing back from the mirror as far as I could in the small room, the effect of dark maroon was very smart.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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Flowers has always been careful to isolate his family from the effects of fame.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
DBS cuts its 2026-2027 new business value projections by 5% to partly reflect high base effects, leading to a lower target price of 106.00 Hong Kong dollars from HK$108.00.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
TOKYO—Japan’s consumer inflation picked up last month as the effects of higher oil prices caused by the Middle East conflict broadened.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
This enabled the scientists to test whether those neurons were actually required for semaglutide to produce its lasting effects.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026
I culled symptoms of mono, plantar warts, shingles, borderline personality disorder and a bladder infection, as well as listing a bunch of side effects from some TV ads for drugs.
From "Liar, Liar" by Gary Paulsen
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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
Rather than fight, Nicolls and Stuyvesant effected a merger.
From Salon ● Mar. 15, 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
But much of the transformation was also effected as a result of plants’ selecting themselves.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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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
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
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
The wonderful achievement of the Ti-pings, not only in effecting an important moral revolution, but also a national deliverance of their countrymen, affords an almost incredible psychological phenomenon.
From Ti-Ping Tien-Kwoh The History of the Ti-Ping Revolution (Volume I) by Augustus F. Lindley
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