effect
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“People who have been systematically impacted, been arrested and are trying to leave all of those problems behind, this can have a chilling effect on them becoming intervention workers,” Garcia-Leys said.
From Los Angeles Times β Nov. 6, 2026
"Unfortunately, the police have advised due to an issue ongoing, the event has to be cancelled. With immediate effect," it said in a social media post, advising people to stay at home.
From BBC β Nov. 6, 2026
The adoption of generative AI is having a profound effect on all sorts of companies.
From MarketWatch β Nov. 6, 2026
This optical effect makes the Moon appear larger when it is close to the horizon than when it is high overhead, even though its actual apparent size changes very little.
From Science Daily β Nov. 6, 2026
A bit farther in, torches flickered on the cave walls, creating what would have been an eerie effect if it hadn’t been so transparently designed to be.
From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley
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This year's El Nino, a pattern of warmer-than-normal sea surface temperatures in the equatorial Pacific that has ripple effects through the atmosphere, is exceptionally strong and could be amplifying those waves.
From Barron's β Nov. 6, 2026
Although these recommendations are grounded in evidence about cardiovascular risk, researchers increasingly recognize that different foods containing the same nutrients may not have identical effects on health.
From Science Daily β Nov. 6, 2026
Mountain lions in particular are suffering from the effects of inbreeding.
From Los Angeles Times β Nov. 6, 2026
Molson Coors said the updated forecast factors in the effects of the global economic environment on the beer industry and on consumer behavior, as well as pressure from promotions in the U.K.
From The Wall Street Journal β Nov. 5, 2026
Yet line is capable of creating a broad range of effects.
From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson
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The deal will be effected through a court-sanctioned scheme of arrangement under United Kingdom law, requiring a 75% majority vote from Allfunds shareholders.
From The Wall Street Journal β Jan. 21, 2026
Rather than fight, Nicolls and Stuyvesant effected a merger.
From Salon β Mar. 15, 2025
The judge said: "The traffic on this occasion was barely crawling and brought to a standstill while the arrests were effected."
From BBC β Oct. 1, 2024
In the end, Musk dictated the Grant’s terms, and the committee effected those wishes.”
From Los Angeles Times β Jan. 31, 2024
But finally, with a shrug and a worried “Ai, Chihuahua,” he climbed behind the wheel and effected another U-tum.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
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Working with the Rock Liberation Front offers the only clear means for effecting change.
From Salon β Apr. 4, 2025
"You have companies that are reasonably similar, so when growth rates change it is effecting quite a few companies in a similar way," he says.
From BBC β Mar. 26, 2025
Toranaga names Blackthorne hatamoto, an honorific indicating high status earned through his courage in effecting Toranaga’s escape.
From New York Times β Mar. 5, 2024
You see, with every other officer excluded under the provision, the state official or state court effecting that exclusion would feel the political costs of their decision alone.
From Slate β Dec. 20, 2023
Of course, if the force to be overcome from Q to P is on the whole an attraction, work has not been spent in effecting the transference, but gained by allowing it to take place.
From Lord Kelvin An account of his scientific life and work by Andrew Gray
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