affecting
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Michigan State’s Yeargain, writing in the Missouri Law Review in 2020 about fake polls affecting prediction markets, argued that publishing fake polls to influence betting markets was either commodities fraud or wire fraud, or both.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
There are 55 statistical measures affecting each team’s index.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026
Lord Woolley, who is Black, said the Arday scandal is affecting all Black academics.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
But in the first three months of this year there were no payments at all in almost 61,000 Collect and Pay cases - affecting 86,000 children, according to the DWP.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
“And now we turn to regular contributor Royal, for an update on how the new Wizarding order is affecting the Muggle world.”
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
Vocabulary lists containing affecting
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