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impact

[im-pakt, im-pakt] / ˈɪm pækt, ɪmˈpækt /




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The UK's economy recorded surprise growth in August despite the impact of rising energy prices and borrowing costs.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

Against that backdrop, a slight shift in sentiment or questions about spending can significantly impact shares, he told MarketWatch.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 15, 2026

The report will likely reflect the impact on offshore production from Hurricane Isaias.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

Biological changes also appear to contribute, although exercise can help reduce their impact.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2026

The impact of that decay isn’t much of an issue unless the atom happens to be on or in a living body when it breaks down.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland

The plaintiffs cite an additional aggravating factor: Shell's "history of misinformation regarding the causes and impacts of climate change," said Greg Lascelles, a lawyer at Hausfeld, the firm handling the lawsuit in London.

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026

But he noted there are still several weeks of fire season to go and "the air quality impacts have been very severe and persistent."

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026

The centre of the low, and its most significant impacts, will stay hundreds of miles from UK shores but north-west Scotland will see a spell of gales.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

“It’s getting a little late, but the ocean is so warm that we can’t rule out more tropical impacts into late October, maybe even early November,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

“They’ve been in a relationship for more than three years. Don’t you think this impacts her, too?”

From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman

“In corporate space, it’s really impacted the more levered CCC borrowers,” Payne added.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026

The former translator has been deeply impacted by AI.

From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026

It leaves the East Yorkshire club as the second-most impacted on £99m.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

Redistricting had impacted the home Greene-Placentia shared with her husband, so she found another place to stay within Arizona’s 8th Congressional District.

From Salon ● Oct. 10, 2026

An impacted welter of metal and brickwork and timber so thick that it’s hard to believe twenty men could get through.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

According to TFG London - the UK arm of retail conglomerate The Foschini Group - it identified an incident on Sunday affecting some IT systems and "specifically impacting our Phase Eight, Hobbs, and Whistles brands".

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

"The company must strengthen its safeguards to prevent similar incidents from impacting city systems without the city's knowledge," Philadelphia police said in a statement to local media, external.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

He added in a report published on its website: "AI will change how work is done across industries, impacting some jobs, transforming thers and creating entirely new roles that we're only beginning to imagine."

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

For example, smoke from fires is another problem impacting wine production that is often undetectable early in the production processes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

“You’re wasting your limited time and energy hating Danny Devon. It is not impacting Danny Devon in the slightest. You’re only harming your soul and your happiness.”

From "Millionaires for the Month" by Stacey McAnulty




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