Example Sentences

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We didn’t have any data, no analytics about the people we were impacting.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 10, 2025

“There are ways that bison were impacting the landscape that we haven’t even thought about.”

From New York Times • Jan. 10, 2023

Southwest Airlines said in a tweet Monday that high call volumes were impacting its call centers.

From Washington Post • Dec. 26, 2022

In addition, the scientific community had yet to reach a consensus that humans were impacting the climate as dramatically as was later discovered to be the case.

From Salon • Dec. 18, 2022

Health charity Improving Lives said rising costs were impacting people's quality of life.

From BBC • Apr. 6, 2022