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effect
noun as in result
Strongest matches
aftermath, consequence, development, event, fallout, issue, outcome, ramification, reaction, repercussion, response, side effect
Strong matches
aftereffect, backlash, backwash, conclusion, corollary, denouement, end, eventuality, flak, follow-up, fruit, outgrowth, precipitate, pursuance, reflex, sequel, sequence, spin-off, upshot, waves
Weak matches
noun as in impact, impression
verb as in carry out, accomplish
Strong matches
actualize, actuate, begin, buy, cause, complete, conceive, conclude, consummate, create, effectuate, execute, follow through, fulfill, generate, induce, initiate, invoke, make, perform, procure, produce, render, secure, sell, unzip, yield
Weak matches
bring off, bring on, carry through, do a number, do one's thing, do the job, do the trick, do to a T, draw on, get across, get to, give rise to, make it, make waves, pull it off, put across, turn out, turn the trick
Example Sentences
Shariyf pointed out how there was only one abortion clinic in the state before the total ban went into effect.
Brower himself soon resigned from the Sierra Club board in protest over what he saw as its refusal to consider immigration’s effect on population growth.
In 2019, going by his byline of “Mike Ma,” he self-published a novel called “Harassment Architecture,” which glorifies those lone-wolf acts of terror, picking up on strains of Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber, who expressed fears about the future “greenhouse effect” and disavowed modernity and its consumerist culture.
After agreeing to take the first package, he describes a “snowball effect”.
“Those small things, if you add them up in the cumulative effect ... that would add up to like a whole attitudinal change for me. People are going to give you more or offer many, many things to you. And I think when you become accustomed to all of that, that’s where greed follows.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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