A great way to learn vocabulary words is to see them used in context. Our Dictionary shows you examples from books and articles, which allows you to browse thousands of sentences for any word you look up. These usage examples let you see how a word is "used in the wild."
The Usage Example section showing examples for the word "effect."
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