Example Sentences

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Later on Wednesday, US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said the president will raise the global tariff to 15% in the coming days "where appropriate" but did not name which countries would be effected.

From BBC • Feb. 25, 2026

External ritual gave way to interior experience, and this inward turn, Mr. Persico tells us, effected “one of the most momentous revolutions” in the history of the West.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 24, 2025

In the end, Musk dictated the Grant’s terms, and the committee effected those wishes.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 31, 2024

We wouldn't put it past the artist to have effected a misdirect about anything made public, which would be just another opportunity to make a subversive statement.

From Salon • Nov. 23, 2023

Children can feel, but they cannot analyse their feelings; and if the analysis is partially effected in thought, they know not how to express the result of the process in words.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë