affect
Example Sentences
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"Waterfall Country is a naturally challenging landscape with steep, uneven terrain and paths that can be affected by weather, erosion, and high visitor pressure."
From BBC
"Support is being offered to anyone within our university community who is affected by this devastating incident," a spokesperson said.
From BBC
“Now especially it isn’t just affecting the queer community but many other communities.”
He says the future-self exercise made him realize how his current financial decisions “are going to affect me when I’m old.”
In this slew of cases, the California Department of Public Health has reported that 60% of affected individuals spoke Spanish as their primary language — other affected people speak Mixteco, Mandarin Chinese, Ukrainian, Russian and English.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
