effecting

Example Sentences

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Working with the Rock Liberation Front offers the only clear means for effecting change.

From Salon • Apr. 4, 2025

That seems downright quaint now; the rip-off they are effecting is at such a bigger scale, and we hardly have time to pay attention to it.

From Slate • Mar. 28, 2025

"You have companies that are reasonably similar, so when growth rates change it is effecting quite a few companies in a similar way," he says.

From BBC • Mar. 26, 2025

Toranaga names Blackthorne hatamoto, an honorific indicating high status earned through his courage in effecting Toranaga’s escape.

From New York Times • Mar. 5, 2024

And that which skill could not, or rather through nervous apprehension was not, permitted to try, a black hog, one of the most unlikely things in the world, was instrumental in effecting.

From Geoffery Gambado A Simple Remedy for Hypochondriacism and Melancholy Splenetic Humours by Bunbury, William Henry