effect
Example Sentences
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The rising heat and sinking cold created a rotation effect that encouraged tornadoes, he said.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2026
“On the whole, it might have some effect, but the individual pieces of it, I don’t think, really do all that much.”
From Salon • Apr. 22, 2026
Chief Executive Larry Fink has called AI “the most significant technology since, at least, the computer,” while admitting its potential long-term effect on the U.S. labor market is an “enormously important question.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 21, 2026
The Act's illegal content duties, which took effect in March 2025, require so-called user-to-user services like messaging apps and social networks to prove they are tackling "priority illegal content".
From BBC • Apr. 21, 2026
But for this coded note, it has an unintended side effect: since Leonardo was already writing backward, all these backward names are written forward.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
Vocabulary lists containing effect
Jim Burke's Academic Vocabulary List
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Academic Vocabulary: Core Tier 2 Words, List 1
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TEKS ELAR Academic Vocabulary List (5th-7th grades)
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