in effect

Example Sentences

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The GOP legislation known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which was signed into law in 2025, created a temporary federal income-tax deduction for tips, in effect from 2025 to 2028.

From MarketWatch • May 14, 2026

But Uthmeier insisted that hidden in this guarantee is, in effect, a prohibition against the donation of genetic material.

From Slate • May 13, 2026

To deal with debt and faltering returns on investment, China in effect rolls over existing debt and recapitalizes its banks with injections of liquidity in the money supply.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 11, 2026

In practice, it means that olive groves, fields with crops and even the cemetery are, in effect, now out of bounds to their owners in the village.

From BBC • May 10, 2026

Was this Jefferson’s roundabout way of suggesting that he and Adams had in effect been acting out a timeless political argument?

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis