effect
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The policy goes into effect for bookings made on or after November 20.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
"We were expecting to see an effect, but of a smaller magnitude," Galli said.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026
An attorney representing Hollywood Park says changing the rules midstream could have a chilling effect on future developments in California.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026
The ban is due to come into effect on 7 August next year, and is followed by a two-year transition period to phase out the practice.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026
I cast a healing spell for dramatic effect.
From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows
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Meanwhile in the United States, the carmaker was also affected by "continued negative effects from tariffs".
From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026
"Once the implosion happens those effects will help in destroying the bloom."
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026
The practical special effects seem to be on the booer’s side, leaning on stagy but charming in-camera tricks that have gone out of style, like switching actors between close-ups.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026
Full financial effects of these measures will be realized by the end of 2027, when the company’s overall indirect spending will be almost 25% below 2024 levels, it added.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
Add the effects of the environment—the impact of nutrition on height, or sunlight exposure on skin color—and Fisher could imagine even more unique combinations and effects, ultimately generating perfectly smooth curves.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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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
"There is no distinction in authority or effect between a stoppage effected during the round and a stoppage effected between rounds or during the rest period."
From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2026
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
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
We had about 15,000 men holding the line from the Khyber to Jelalabad; but in effecting this, 14,000 camels had perished, and several of the regiments had been more than decimated from sickness and exposure.
From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 by Various
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