affected

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Cyclone Ditwah, the worst disaster since the 2004 Asian tsunami, killed 641 people and affected almost the entire country late last year.

From Barron's • Apr. 4, 2026

PowerWash Simulator has even been the subject of an Oxford University study, which looked at whether video games affected players' wellbeing.

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026

That risk increases to 10 percent if a parent or sibling is affected, and rises to 50 percent for identical twins.

From Science Daily • Apr. 3, 2026

What’s also true is that 21st century markets can be affected by speculators’ attention, much as wheat crops can be affected by the attention of locust swarms.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

What they share is not a vague Zeitgeist but the social and cultural environment, which must have affected artist and patron alike to some degree.

From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson