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impact

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




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That impact will make itself felt in the business in coming quarters, said Zinsner.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 23, 2026

Child psychologists had previously told the BBC that separating young children from their caregivers could have a lifelong impact on their mental health.

From BBC Jul. 23, 2026

Much of Imax’s earnings call focused on the impact of the film, which is based on ancient Greek poet Homer’s epic.

From MarketWatch Jul. 23, 2026

There was a movie that made an enormous impact on me when I was fairly young in my very early teens, a film called “Sixteen Candles.”

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 23, 2026

How would it impact children all over the world?

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin

“The targeted nature of the tariffs means the biggest impacts would be at the sectoral and regional level,” Oxford says.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 23, 2026

“There is no cash flow attached to them and they could easily be reversed,” Windsor wrote of the equity impacts.

From MarketWatch Jul. 23, 2026

Disease prevalence among camels and reduced milk yield from them are as a result of climate change impacts including heat stress, according to another study conducted in the Horn of Africa, external.

From BBC Jul. 22, 2026

Britain’s Competition and Markets Authority is still investigating the merger’s impacts.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 22, 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

EasyJet's third quarter was impacted by "elevated fuel prices and a reduction in consumer demand following the onset of the Middle East conflict", it said in an earnings statement.

From Barron's Jul. 23, 2026

“People experiencing homelessness — and the communities impacted by this crisis — care less about esoteric debates over the numbers,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 23, 2026

He noted the recent quarter was hurt by unusually adverse conditions, as discrete headwinds impacted the majority of the company’s end markets.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 23, 2026

The chain, in a statement on Thursday, said that it would indefinitely remove “potentially impacted lettuce from a supplier in select states.”

From MarketWatch Jul. 18, 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

"But we've really got to think about the fact that our water usage is directly impacting the flow in our rivers and directly impacting fish and other wildlife's survival."

From BBC Jul. 22, 2026

“The NBA league office informed us that as a result of the ongoing investigation involving the Clippers, we would assume the risk of any potential outcome of the investigation impacting Kawhi,” the Raptors said.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 9, 2026

However Yuda and Komori both warned that the tougher measures were impacting "small restaurant owners" and "young entrepreneurs", as well as the system's abusers.

From Barron's Jul. 1, 2026

Morningstar analyst Luke Yang told MarketWatch that news of OpenAI’s IPO delay was the main factor impacting Oracle’s stock performance.

From MarketWatch Jun. 26, 2026

There is another insidious way in which the power of our devices to capture attention could be impacting daily life.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel




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