impact
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Chinese officials have warned employers not to cut jobs as they adopt artificial intelligence, amid concerns about the impact on social stability.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
BBC Sport has crunched the numbers to assess the potential financial impact on the top flight.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
In southern Madagascar, aid workers told AFP they are already battling the effects of a famine and conditions are expected to worsen as El Nino's full impact on Africa takes hold from this month.
From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026
The potential impact runs much deeper and includes missed Champions League qualification, relegation and Premier League prize money.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
I can only watch as the monkey falls about twenty feet into the river, the impact creating a modest bloop in the blue-brown water that sloshes beneath the dock.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
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Food security concerns, wildfires and power warnings are among the impacts around the world this week from an exceptionally strong El Nino weather cycle.
From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026
“We saw gas pop higher late on Friday on news around the impacts from the storm, but much of that support has tempered back out,” he says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 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
"We encourage people to be aware of the impacts of drought and use a little less water to speed up the recovery from drought."
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
When used as a verb, this word impacts me the wrong way.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
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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
Meanwhile, the most sensitive sectors such as agriculture, and funds for regional development were the least impacted with reductions of only three percent.
From Barron's ● Oct. 10, 2026
Not all subscription-based products may be impacted equally, but consumption habits are likely to change, Tanay Jaipuri, partner at Wing Venture Capital, said.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026
And at the same moment, Celia remains certain, something was put in motion that impacted the entire circus and everyone within it once that fire was lit.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
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It prompted a swift condemnation from South Korean President Lee Jae Myung, who called it "greatly disappointing" and said the transfer was a "highly sensitive issue" impacting national security.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 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
The teams she now leads will want a plan for how they can make such deep cuts without impacting the quality of what they do.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
As The Times first reported in January 2025, west Altadena evacuation alerts came “as the fire approached and, in some cases, after it had already begun impacting the area,” the report found.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
Along the way, we'd work to hold the business community accountable for its decision making around issues impacting children's health.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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