effectively
Americanadverb
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in a way that accomplishes a purpose or produces the intended or expected results.
These scissors are no longer sharp and do not cut effectively.
You may not like all your coworkers, but you still have to learn to work effectively with them.
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in actuality; in practice.
Allowing the legislature to take existing money for schools and use it for other purposes effectively means there will be no new money for education.
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in a way that produces a vivid impression; strikingly.
The visually rich photographs are effectively displayed against the stark white gallery walls.
Other Word Forms
- preeffectively adverb
- quasi-effectively adverb
- subeffectively adverb
- supereffectively adverb
- uneffectively adverb
Etymology
Origin of effectively
Example Sentences
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“What I think effectively changes is what Warsh wants to do is bring the Fed back to its traditional mission, not the dual mandate,” said Caron.
From Barron's
"Business continuity arrangements were immediately mobilised supported by the trust's estates, infection prevention control, support services and hospital management teams to effectively assess and mitigate any risks."
From BBC
Yet he also effectively ended any debate about humans vs. robots, pointing to human-led exploration for reasons of national prestige, geopolitics and law.
He believes that there’s “effectively nonexistent” risk that merchants start vibe coding their own software and upend Shopify’s business model.
From MarketWatch
As such, investors are effectively being gifted the potential upside of the cloud infrastructure division, by Luria’s analysis, provided that Oracle can successfully convert its massive contract backlog into revenue.
From MarketWatch
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