effects

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But it also persuaded the musician, who'd previously written a song about the effects of quitting Prozac, to go back on medication – in this case, the antidepressant Lexapro.

From BBC • Apr. 25, 2026

For investors, it likely helped that jet-fuel shortages and other real-world effects of the eight-week-old conflict still feel fairly distant in the U.S., even as they disrupt daily life elsewhere in the world.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 25, 2026

“We have to understand that for every action, there are second- and third-order effects that we could live to regret,” Arkansas Rep. Steve Womack, for example, told NBC News.

From Slate • Apr. 25, 2026

The EU is seeking more progress in easing the effects of US steel tariffs, its trade chief Maros Sefcovic said Friday, adding that talks are "going in a positive direction."

From Barron's • Apr. 24, 2026

The title was rambling, but the message was succinct: if you mixed the effects of three to five variant genes on any trait, you could generate nearly perfect continuity in phenotype.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee