affecting
Example Sentences
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"In addition, many streams may flood, potentially affecting larger rivers."
From BBC
President Tinubu has insisted there is religious tolerance in the country and said the security challenges were affecting people "across faiths and regions".
From BBC
The pope also called attention to rising poverty and inequality, particularly affecting children and the elderly, and appealed for renewed commitment to social justice and care for the poor.
From Salon
The growing closeness between Olive, played with quiet radiance by Ms. Rogers, and William, whom Mr. McHale renders with galumphing gawkiness, forms another affecting strand of the score.
One group of mice carried multiple human mutations affecting amyloid processing, while the other carried a human mutation in the tau protein.
From Science Daily
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