Example Sentences

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This was supposed to be meaningful change, and here was Tanya Snyder’s chance to articulate how she was effecting such meaningful change.

From Washington Post • Sep. 10, 2021

Watching the news I couldn’t imagine how scary it would be if a new disease was effecting my wife and my family and friends.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2020

One thing I heard several times when trying to do re-reporting myself: Many people had doubts about the details in the story, but didn’t really care, as long as it was effecting change at UVA.

From Slate • Dec. 5, 2014

Stomach ulcer sufferers viewed with interest the news that a Stanford University professor was effecting cures with: 1.

From Time Magazine Archive

This is to be attributed partly to the beneficial changes which the progress of time was effecting throughout Europe, and which gradually extended themselves to Scotland,—and partly to the personal character of these two monarchs.

From Life of Mary Queen of Scots, Volume I (of 2) by Bell, Henry Glassford