effectively

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So far, the only step the bloc has taken in retaliation is to effectively freeze the process of approving last summer’s EU-U.S. trade deal in the European Parliament.

From The Wall Street Journal

In other words, there needs to be a complete gap between the attacker and the second-to-last opposition player - effectively the last defender - given the goalkeeper's usual positioning.

From BBC

"It sits above Roman waterfronts so that road effectively protects a whole massive swathe of wonderful archaeology - and that would be early Roman waterfronts, medieval buildings, everything," she says.

From BBC

“It would sow the seeds, effectively, of the demise of dollar dominance,” said Ray Attrill, head of foreign-exchange strategy at National Australia Bank in Sydney.

From The Wall Street Journal

Syria has been in a fragile state since the fall of President Bashar al-Assad's regime in December 2024, which effectively ended a civil war that had ravaged the country for 13 years.

From BBC