effecting

present participle of effect

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Recent Examples of effecting Stock Chart IconStock chart icon Oil prices year-to-date Citi warned that effecting the fee could also lift the possibility of a broader military confrontation in the near term. Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 14 July 2026 Although the wine mom has certain advantages for effecting political change in an age of hyperpolitics, one still suspects that the commonest usage of the term is rooted in reflexive, sexist disdain. Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 7 May 2026 Rising consumer costs are not just effecting humans, but our furry family members too. Audrina Sinclair, CBS News, 2 Apr. 2026 These changes have resulted in further voter disenfranchisement, disproportionately effecting Black and Hispanic voters. Allison Mashell Mitchell, The Conversation, 1 Apr. 2026 Cameron Bryan, president of CISD board, said there is a trend of low enrollments effecting North Texas school districts, such as Grapevine-Colleyville. Fousia Abdullahi, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 Jan. 2026 Even sometimes effecting personal introductions. Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Jan. 2026 The 11th edition of Fortune’s annual Change the World list is out this morning, highlighting 50 companies who are doing well by doing good (aka effecting positive change through their businesses, rather than just philanthropy on the side). Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 24 Sep. 2025 The award recognizes students for their positive efforts in raising awareness, effecting change regarding mental health and breaking down the stigma. Magda Liszewska, Oc Register, 7 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for effecting
Verb
  • The issue is that AI technology iterates extremely fast, causing related equipment and computing assets to depreciate rapidly, whereas financing debts are long term, creating a maturity mismatch risk.
    , CNBC, 28 Aug. 2026
  • This month, her mother’s memory-care facility was in an evacuation zone, causing many sleepless nights.
    Anya Kamenetz, Curbed, 28 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Running open-weight AI agents and programs has been gaining steam, creating shortages for desktop Macs.
    Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 25 Aug. 2026
  • The rest of the lunar surface may take on an eerie reddish-orange hue, creating an impressive 'almost blood moon'.
    Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 25 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • And peony, while bringing a lightness to an otherwise darker slate of fragrance trends, still feels like a more sophisticated floral than an obvious rose.
    Loren Savini, Allure, 22 Aug. 2026
  • The effect of bringing a host of films together in this way is never predictable; even familiar elements don’t look the same.
    Geoffrey O’Brien, The New York Review of Books, 22 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • When generating text, large language models pick each next word from a set of plausible candidates.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 25 Aug. 2026
  • The uneven nature seen by ALMA is likely the result of massive convective movements in the star, hot plasma rising through the star and generating shockwaves that erupt in the star's atmosphere, creating bright and hot regions.
    Robert Lea, Space.com, 25 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Candidates who struggle to provide substantive answers—or who can’t name anyone without prompting—may often show this same pattern of taking solo credit throughout the interview and beyond.
    Harvard Business Review, Harvard Business Review, 24 Aug. 2026
  • Clancy then began taking Zoloft, prompting immediate difficulty, Heilbrun said, recounting the symptoms and treatments in the lead-up to the death of Clancy's children months later in January 2023.
    Rebecca Cohen, NBC news, 24 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • While doing so has helped millions of individuals access the power of electronics, the shrinking size of transistors is presenting problems at mass manufacturing scales.
    Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 27 Aug. 2026
  • Alicia McCalla, 56, a fiction writer who has been doing voice work for five years out of her home in Atlanta, decided to ignore union suggestions and clone her voice.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 27 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Finite’s founder, Amy Gardner, has producing credits on the likes of And Then Come the Nightjars, La Bohème, Honeytrap, and My House, and worked on the stage productions of Nuclear Children and The Joy of Text.
    Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 26 Aug. 2026
  • Those numbers should prompt serious questions about what is happening in classrooms and whether NYC Reads — the city’s sweeping changes to reading instruction — is producing the results students need.
    Katie Pace Miles, New York Daily News, 25 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • This mystery has tantalized scientists since Charles Darwin mused on it in 1871, spawning no shortage of competing theories about the origins of Earth’s biology around four billion years ago.
    Philip Ball, Scientific American, 20 Aug. 2026
  • Later in August, the salmon will begin to weaken and die after spawning.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 20 Aug. 2026

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“Effecting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/effecting. Accessed 29 Aug. 2026.

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