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as in influences
to act upon (a person or a person's feelings) so as to cause a response
their son claims that scary movies don't affect him in the least
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as in involves
to be the business or affair of
fortunately, hurricane season doesn't affect the West Coast
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as in simulates
to present a false appearance of
she affected complete unawareness that we were talking about her, though she must have overheard
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as in haunts
to go to or spend time in often
a power couple known to affect all the fancy parties in town
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Recent Examples of affects
Maria Aspan, NPR, 17 May 2026
Cancer affects one in four people around the world.
—Bettina Zilkha, Forbes.com, 16 May 2026
The recall affects some products sold in Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, New Jersey, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, Washington and Wisconsin.
—Kerry Breen, CBS News, 16 May 2026
The fungus affects pumpkins, squash and melons.
—Tom MacCubbin, The Orlando Sentinel, 16 May 2026
But the bigger picture affects everyone.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 15 May 2026
Sleep also affects your daily choices.
—Julie Scott, Verywell Health, 15 May 2026
Working against your body’s natural clock creates a compounding cycle that affects everything from mood to long-term health.
—Allison Palmer, Sacbee.com, 15 May 2026
The question of how Venus’s atmosphere affects probes isn’t just about the past—the list of artifacts may be growing soon because more probes are set to land on Venus.
—Emma Gometz, Scientific American, 10 May 2026
Verb
Cambria executives say the disease affects workers at countertop businesses that cut raw slabs on the cheap without the necessary protections, and that its workers cut the product safely.
—Maria Aspan, NPR, 17 May 2026
Cancer affects one in four people around the world.
—Bettina Zilkha, Forbes.com, 16 May 2026
The recall affects some products sold in Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, New Jersey, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, Washington and Wisconsin.
—Kerry Breen, CBS News, 16 May 2026
The fungus affects pumpkins, squash and melons.
—Tom MacCubbin, The Orlando Sentinel, 16 May 2026
But the bigger picture affects everyone.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 15 May 2026
Sleep also affects your daily choices.
—Julie Scott, Verywell Health, 15 May 2026
Working against your body’s natural clock creates a compounding cycle that affects everything from mood to long-term health.
—Allison Palmer, Sacbee.com, 15 May 2026
The question of how Venus’s atmosphere affects probes isn’t just about the past—the list of artifacts may be growing soon because more probes are set to land on Venus.
—Emma Gometz, Scientific American, 10 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for affects
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The study found that locomotion strongly influences handedness patterns across primates.—
Rupendra Brahambhatt,
Interesting Engineering,
16 May 2026
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Xu notes that as enterprises evaluate how technology influences cost structures, efficiency, and competitive positioning, leadership criteria are evolving alongside them.—
William Jones,
USA Today,
12 May 2026
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Burberry is a professor of English and an expert in geomythology, a field which involves searching old folk tales, myths and stories for evidence of real geological events.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
11 May 2026
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Cariello said Cox also appears to apply in a lawsuit that music publishers filed against the X social network, which involves users uploading music to the platform.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
11 May 2026
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The Supercomputer simulates the remaining fixtures of a season 10,000 times and analyses the results to create an average league table from those simulations.—
Cerys Jones,
New York Times,
1 May 2026
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The facility is likely the only one in the world that can do full-load, bidirectional testing that simulates both grid conditions and variable data-center loads.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
29 Apr. 2026
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Compare this ideology to Dylan’s track record for radical and often strange reinterpretations of his material, a live experience that still haunts McCartney to this day.—
Devon Ivie,
Vulture,
14 May 2026
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One memory still haunts her most.—
Efrat Lachter,
FOXNews.com,
10 May 2026
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And in the case of another government shutdown that impacts SNAP, markets may still provide some level of assistance to alleviate the gap.—
The Washington Post,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
13 May 2026
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That number impacts Newtown Square, the Philadelphia region and southeastern Pennsylvania as a whole.—
Pat Gallen,
CBS News,
12 May 2026
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Neil Chilson, head of AI policy at the Abundance Institute, tells me what concerns him about this power struggle.—
Benjamin Guggenheim,
Washington Post,
12 May 2026
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The story concerns a grieving father who, after losing his wife, sends a message out into the stars…and something out there starts to talk back.—
Borys Kit,
HollywoodReporter,
8 May 2026
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But nobody pretends academics matter for college football players in 2026, and shortening the lull could maintain momentum and move the National Championship up a few weeks.—
Ian Miller OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
7 May 2026
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There's also Bright White, which pretends to be Acetate, and definitely has the texture of something that wants to be organic.—
Florence Ion,
PC Magazine,
1 May 2026
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Alvidrez represents the area and frequents the Asia Center; she's also been in contact with the building's owner.—
Chierstin Roth,
CBS News,
27 Apr. 2026
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For anyone who frequents La Jolla Shores or the surrounding San Diego coastline, the sightings add a layer of wonder to an already stunning environment.—
Samantha Agate,
Miami Herald,
23 Apr. 2026
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“Affects.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/affects. Accessed 18 May. 2026.
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