Example Sentences

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Over the years, habitat loss, poaching and collisions with overhead power lines have effected great Indian bustards.

From BBC • Nov. 7, 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

The Constitution imposed by MacArthur and his Government Section in 1947 was the sort of fundamental change no single group in Japan itself could have effected.

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

When the iron was at its most scorching, the IOC failed to execute the kind of forceful ban that might have effected actual change in the Russian system.

From Washington Post • Feb. 14, 2022

This he would have effected, if Dee had not likewise lent his aid to prevent him.

From Guy Fawkes or The Gunpowder Treason by Ainsworth, William Harrison