How to Use effectuate in a Sentence

effectuate

verb

• The tech is there, but the system hasn't caught up to effectuate the best outcomes.
  — Paul Du Quenoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 May 2025
• He's committed to helping athletes take the next steps to effectuate change.
  — Rob Maaddi, Star Tribune, 27 Aug. 2020
• The president has even had to be coached to effectuate simple human feelings.
  — Jim Nelson, GQ, 21 May 2018
• In the absence of such laws, a culture of transparency can be difficult to effectuate.
  — Alison Cross, Hartford Courant, 3 June 2024
• The reason is that the police almost never make it to the stores in response to a shoplifting call in time to effectuate an arrest.
  — David Marchesephoto Illustration By Bráulio Amado, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2022
• Nor can Trump rely only on his powers of persuasion to effectuate a deal.
  — Victor Cha, Foreign Affairs, 29 May 2025
• As such, the norm is that no order need be issued to effectuate IOP amendments.
  — Jack Kelly and Matthew Defour, Journal Sentinel, 30 Aug. 2023
• They were called into duty as extra personnel to effectuate the service of the search warrant.
  — Ben Tobin, The Courier-Journal, 23 Sep. 2020
• All the while, black people are harmed, but the people who effectuated that harm have no accountability.
  — Preston Mitchum, The Root, 8 May 2017
• The biggest thing is to have communication from the people that are effectuating it.
  — Sarah Ravani, SFChronicle.com, 28 June 2018
• But the groundwork is still being laid to effectuate real change, Hedden-Nicely said.
  — Time, 2 Apr. 2022
• But the groundwork is still being laid to effectuate real change, Hedden-Nicely said.
  — Susan Montoya Bryan and Felicia Fonseca, Chron, 3 Apr. 2022
• This payout was a massive 40% of the government's budget and required many bonds to slave owners to effectuate the law.
  — Matthew Brown, USA TODAY, 1 July 2020
• But the system in place to expedite these cases is just not working, and no one seems to be stepping up to effectuate and implement necessary changes.
  — Corky Siemaszko, NBC news, 9 May 2025
• What's critical is affording ourselves grace in doing our best to effectuate positive change.
  — Simone E. Morris, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
• And last spring, a federal appeals court ordered that the settlement agreement be effectuated.
  — Adam S. Minsky, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026
• Please take any necessary actions to effectuate this direction from leadership.
  — Lexi Lonas Cochran, The Hill, 11 Mar. 2025
• Allen cited that conversation as the catalyst to effectuate change for the greater good, by building the world’s biggest media company.
  — Essence, 26 June 2020
• For any demand in society, propaganda was required to effectuate change.
  — Literary Hub, 27 Apr. 2026
• None of the statutory requirements enumerated above can be effectuated if the agency has been shuttered.
  — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 28 Mar. 2025
• This does not mean that all pregnant aliens will be detained; only those whose detention is necessary to effectuate removal, as well as those deemed a flight risk or danger to the community.
  — Jewel Wicker, Teen Vogue, 10 July 2018
• Friday’s pledge by Florida lawmakers to effectuate change in our industry is welcome.
  — Adam Sabes, Fox News, 7 Apr. 2022
• The world is watching America rebuff allies while effectuating Putin’s plans.
  — Michael Szalma, Orlando Sentinel, 22 Feb. 2025
• The point of activism is to effectuate change and to embrace responsibility for positive social outcomes connected to their cause.
  — Jay Ruderman, Rolling Stone, 9 Sep. 2024
• The rule of law, as effectuated here and abroad, compels a prosecution against those who conspired to overthrow democracy in the United States.
  — Andrew Weissmann, Variety, 1 Mar. 2023
• Many also encouraged people to vote in the upcoming mid-term elections, stressing that the people voted into public office are key to effectuating change.
  — Killian Baarlaer, Louisville Courier Journal, 28 Mar. 2026
• But in order to actually effectuate the license, Treasury had to get approval from the State Department.
  — CBS News, 7 July 2021
• The issue is that politicians have successfully sold the idea that buying a home is always better than renting and, without a coherent policy to effectuate that, have decided to throw the kitchen sink at the issue.
  — Washington Post, 5 Feb. 2026
• Understanding the mechanisms—inevitable and otherwise—that effectuated that shift is an exercise Cohen leaves to the reader.
  — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 15 Feb. 2024
• Respondents' conduct over the past months belie that his detention has been for the basic purpose of effectuating removal, lending further support that Abrego Garcia should be held no longer.
  — Jacob Rosen, CBS News, 11 Dec. 2025