This had the side effect that it would be possible for someone to go off in a rocket ship and return to earth before he set out. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

This math doesn’t add up, but girls have this effect on Dylan. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

In effect, the society was divided into hereditary chief and commoner classes, with Hawaiian chiefs themselves subdivided into eight hierarchically ranked lineages, each concentrating its marriages within its own lineage. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It is not uncommon for their egg production to be increased threefold — all through the beneficent effect of insecticides. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

It was not an unreasonable argument, but the prevailing view, with which I agreed, was that circumcision was a cultural ritual that had not only a salutary health benefit but an important psychological effect. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Usually we broke down in the middle, and always had a demoralizing effect on the more talented children, and on their parents in the audience. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was trying so hard to please Cousin Eunice that had that effect on her. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there is still a large effect of history remaining after one controls for the usual measures of good institutions. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Desperately tricky to make, and disastrous to get wrong. However, if brewed correctly, as this has been, you will find that all your endeavors tend to succeed...at least until the effects wear off.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

He had a grin that completely destroyed the effect of his eyes. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Rat Kiley went through the kid’s pockets, placed his personal effects in a plastic bag, taped the bag to Kiowa’s wrist, then used the radio to call in a dustoff. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Meanwhile, the cascade effect that has left more than twenty-three million people without running water shows no sign of abating. For more, we take you to Donavan Lee in Silverlake.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Their faded uniforms look spectral in the dimness, and their breathing seems synchronized, and the effect is ghostly and unnerving. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

As long as you never used it, I did not think that the Ring would have any lasting effect on you, not for evil, not at any rate for a very long time. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

It is this bug-eyed effect Hilly has on people that makes her such a successful League president. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“His effect on world history was incalculable, greater than that of kings & captains,” Wouk wrote. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Reginald, when he came to visit me again in a few days, could gauge from my attitude the effect that his talking had had upon me. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Zach keeps talking about experiencing what could be called the “Truman Drama effect”: the sense of acclaim they feel only when they leave home. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“There’s a disturbance in the Claw, I’m afraid. All civilians must clear out. Full curfew in effect.” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

I treat my burns with the ointment and try dabbing a bit on my stings as well, but it has no effect on them. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Abby’s wearing the ankle boots she bought yesterday and a short patterned skirt, and the effect is disarming. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

It seemed the effect of the brand flies’ poison still lingered in the sky god’s system. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Sending the sketch to Theo, he describes “a blond, soft effect, and in the woods a more sombre, serious mood. I’m glad that both of these exist in life.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Black people have been made criminals by the War on Drugs to a degree that dwarfs its effect on other racial and ethnic groups, especially whites. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

They seem to have far more effect on the displaced Capitol rebels like my crew and Fulvia—even Plutarch occasionally reacts in surprise, maybe wondering how a specific tidbit passed him by. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The bombing and marines were not having any noticeable effect on enemy momentum. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

In the foreground, the sound effects team waits for the cue to use their equipment and discs containing prerecorded sounds. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

He’s wearing a suit...even has a spot on his chin where he nicked himself shaving and left the little piece of tissue there “for effect.” Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

To the consternation of his many political enemies, and certainly Auburn’s guards, Osborne used his charisma and the credibility earned as an “inmate” to put this system into effect. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He used giants last time, when he wanted to go for the grand effect,” he said. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The best way to effect change on Robben Island was to attempt to influence officials privately rather than publicly. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

This effect could be true even if the bursts are not addictive, and merely just habit-forming. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

My other example of how ancient peoples apparently used their ethnobiological knowledge to good effect comes from the Jordan Valley in the ninth millennium B.C., the period of the earliest crop cultivation there. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

When I laid my foot on the middle cross bench, its hardness had an invigorating effect on me, as if I had just stepped on solid ground. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Add the effects of the environment—the impact of nutrition on height, or sunlight exposure on skin color—and Fisher could imagine even more unique combinations and effects, ultimately generating perfectly smooth curves. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Above all he wanted the exposition landscape to produce an aura of “mysterious poetic effect.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

It was as though all of that life merely was back there, without any remaining effect, or influence. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stupid honesty lectures and their stupid lasting effects. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“But when the genetic manipulations began to take effect, the alterations had disastrous consequences. As it turns out, the attempt had resulted not in corrected genes, but in damaged ones,” David says. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“I can see Hogwarts,” said Malfoy, clearly relishing the effect he had created as he pointed out of the blackened window. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Did the Ancient Hainish postulate that continuous sexual capacity and organized social aggression, neither of which are attributes of any mammal but man, are cause and effect? The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

All around the dining hall, you can feel the rejuvenating effect that a good meal can bring on. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Doctors noticed that the Marburg agent had a strange effect on the brain. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Obviously, it was not a planned operation—how could it be?—but the effect was the same. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

But the mixture didn’t give us the effect we wanted. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Because means “for the reason that,” so the example says, in effect: The reason Rex stayed home is for the reason that robbers tied him up. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over time, the practices began to have an effect. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Blue’s Clues is essentially a show built around the James Earl Jones effect. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Was this Jefferson’s roundabout way of suggesting that he and Adams had in effect been acting out a timeless political argument? Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

You’re never really sure, since cause and effect have become as shifty as time itself. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Another scientist wanted to know if the similarity Gartler was seeing between cell lines was just the effect of spontaneous transformation making all cells act the same. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

She had the same effect on him as the Dare Devil Dive ride at Six Flags. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

“The tornado watch is in effect until six p.m.,” A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Clear-cut successful in all respects. Visual effects greater than Trinity. Proceeding to regular base.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The effects of the laudanum felt to Ophie like something almost magical: the old woman became not just agreeable, but friendly, her demeanor and her words soft whenever Ophie had to fetch her anything. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

There was little experience of field use for either, and no one knew what their effects would be on wild birds, fishes, or mammals when applied on a massive scale. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Kyle heard a WHIRR-DING! sound effect as his red battery icon glowed green and grew from nearly empty to completely full. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

I could see he’d been worried that Edward’s daring rescue might have impressed me, and he was relieved that it seemed to have the opposite effect. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, for dramatic effect, we would hold the flashlights under our chins while we were explaining something in detail. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

“That sounds right. You live upstate. I live down here near the city, too close to the harbor. The water. It’s like a lake effect.” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

In A Tale of Two Cities, when the guillotine chops off a head, the sound effects team hacked a cabbage with a cleaver. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

In effect, Europe received its crops, livestock, technology, and writing systems from the Fertile Crescent, which then gradually eliminated itself as a major center of power and innovation. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

When Newton performed his experiment in 1666 it was probably deliberately designed to produce the elongated spectrum, an effect he describes as if were a complete surprise. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

That the sea anchors, miraculously, were not lost—they continued to tug at the lifeboat faith­fully—was a consolation that had no effect. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Too many readers are intimidated and humbled by what they can’t understand, and in some cases that’s precisely the effect the writer is after. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He deliberately kept his mind off the effects of hot agents. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

That idea, as embodied by the cocktail party effect, is fundamental to modern attention science, and it seems so obvious. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Pip,” said Estella, casting her glance over the room, “don’t be foolish about its effect on you. It may have its effect on others, and may be meant to have. It’s not worth discussing.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

It was far too late for odori classes to have any effect on me and Papa knew this. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

And that ancient law went into effect which says that when you need towns they are very far apart. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

You were stung in your first Hunger Games, so unlike most of us, you have firsthand knowledge of the effects of the venom.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Once, back in the spring during his early days with Min, he had watched the potter place a plum branch in a finished vase to judge the effect. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

And sometimes, a rumor based on a kiss has a snowball effect. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

I’m trying to put myself in her shoes, playing games not of cause and effect, but of effect and cause. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Summer vacation doesn’t have the same effect it had on me when I was a kid. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Dissonance was just one of the effects he employed to ‘paint’ the lyrics in sound. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

At the same time, he says, the cocktail party effect shows the limitations of attention; after all, you can’t pay attention to two conversations at once. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry to disturb you,” Lazlo said, or something to that effect. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The fact of insecticide storage in the germ cells of any species should therefore disturb us, suggesting comparable effects in human beings. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

It had been felt that the existence of a farm owned and operated by pigs was somehow abnormal and was liable to have an unsettling effect in the neighbourhood. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Bigwig realized that since the moment when Kehaar had attacked him in the field, Woundwort had not only retained control over his officers but had actually made a plan and put it into effect. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

But no matter how good the effects became, you could still tell—if you looked hard enough—that it wasn’t real. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

But white men with far more political power than that possessed by the Nation of Islam movement have been advocating exactly this, in effect, for generations. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

She made a great show of enunciating her own sparkling s’s, and the effect was profoundly irritating. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

The initial event in the play has the same effect as someone throwing a stone into a pond, he tells them. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Then, in September and October, there were more developments on the legal and personal front that underscored the numbing effect, the purgatory. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Looking back at early man, perhaps, or at his ape cousins, he saw that running away was what you did instinctively when you were afraid; retreating was the usual effect of fear. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The effect of a chemical of supposedly innocuous nature can be drastically changed by the action of another; one of the best examples is a close relative of DDT called methoxychlor. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

But I am confident - as I was then - that the sorts of elaborate and mysterious processes performed by someone like Mr Jack Neighbours had little or no discernible effect on the end result. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Taking a cue from Kari’s book, McCandless started to dig and eat wild potato roots on June 24, apparently without ill effect. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was brilliant moonlight, and the soft effect of the light over the sea and sky—merged together in one great, silent mystery—was beautiful beyond words. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

The effects of the Cataclyst had been undone, and all of Chthonia appeared to be have been restored along with the castle. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

A part of him — the part closest to his throbbing right ear — was quite keen on the idea of letting Ron down and watching him run amok until the effects of the potion wore off... Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Now and then they heard whispered rumors to the effect that he was in the neighborhood. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Either the side effects of the nahlrout were fading, or my anger was slowly burning away the haze of exhaustion. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Everyone had gone home except one of the sound effects men. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Pocock pondered this effect and its consequences and gradually came to a startling realization. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

But Jus knows the effects of trauma are real: he watched his dad lash out at his mom for years. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

And in the same passage he marked, The repugnance to animal food is not the effect of experience, but is an instinct. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just the word on its own is enough to reduce me to jelly, which everybody knows and makes use of to great effect. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

This is hard because the effects of the concussion she gave me haven’t completely subsided and my thoughts still have a tendency to jumble together. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

He later admitted that the game had a great effect in motivating him. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

And he did not like the idea of being stalked; he had seen the effect on androids. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Luckily, the ill-advised blow had a side effect. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

The effect was like someone dropping a flash grenade on the table. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

At first this message had its desired unsettling effect. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

The effect on Cecilia was to cause her to tighten her grip. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The offhand comment about bus segregation had such an effect on Ann. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Watching him destroy his opponents had the same effect as a horror movie. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

This meant that I couldn’t go to work, continue my quest, or, in effect, live my life. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

It is normally very difficult to see this effect, because the light from the sun makes it impossible to observe stars that appear near to the sun in the sky. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

This pronouncement seemed to have a strong effect on the people in the courtroom. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Huxley used diagrams to explain how Williams must have produced various effects. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

My speech had the intended effect, and Jimmy left the office. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

For some reason he had always thought of wine as having an intensely sweet taste, like that of blackberry jam, and an immediate intoxicating effect. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

She was planning to publish a paper about the effects of Dad’s teaching methods on our intelligence quotients. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you drew a blank card from the deck, that meant you could fill it in, assigning it a point value and an effect, the more random the better. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Thinking that he might have some kind of bacterial infection, they gave him injections of antibiotics, but the antibiotics had no effect on his illness. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

This had a pleasant effect on Billy, who began to enjoy his body for the first time. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

This would drive some of the C02 out of the surface rocks, generating a stronger greenhouse effect, which would in turn incrementally heat the surface further. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sky was a mere block to allow a visual effect on the horizon: sunlight flooding the ocean, the vertical edges between light and shadow perfectly distinct. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Small though this effect is, it had been noticed before 1915 and served as one of the first confirmations of Einstein’s theory. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dorothy’s insistence also had a collateral effect: one of the white computers in the branch, in the same limbo position as Katherine, had herself gone to Pearson to petition for a raise. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Major provisions of the Affordable Care Act had also gone into effect, with young people allowed to remain longer on their parents’ insurance policies and companies prevented from capping a patient’s lifetime coverage. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was the morbid effect of living in a crime scene, but I imagined him drinking blood. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

We are, as humans, heavily socialized to make a kind of rough approximation between cause and effect. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

An experimental study of the effects of improvisation on the development of children’s creative thinking in music. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

It had the desired effect: People craned their necks, pointed, stood on tiptoes. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t need to, since my hair is generally tangle free, but combing my hair has this calming effect on me. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

My plan, I told him, was simply to effect essentially cosmetic changes in order to make the ANC more intelligible — and more palatable — to our allies. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sit-in was planned to achieve the maximum national effect and paced to build a powerful and sustainable movement capable of destroying Jim Crow. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

However, the action of both heart and lungs improved, and Van Helsing made a subcutaneous injection of morphia, as before, and with good effect. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Money came and again there were days of packing household effects. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Anything that might have caused these colors as a side effect.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

The effect on me was completely the opposite. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

On another occasion, he stared at the Sun for as long as he could bear, to determine what effect it would have upon his vision. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The effects are felt throughout the United States. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Then he smiles, as if he knows what sort of effect he has, and turns away. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

For us, the main effect of the comparison is to make the cool, formal quality of Manet’s figures even more conspicuous. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Georgia Governor Zell Miller, in 1998, proposed sending every newborn in the state a copy of a classical CD based on this supposed “effect.” Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

A visitor could con-template, with more perspective than any prison employee, the effects of incarceration and the prospects of life after it. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I found out later that he had begun chemotherapy for his disease, and that one of the many side effects was nausea. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

But in effect it was unanswerable even now, since the few scattered survivors from the ancient world were incapable of comparing one age with another. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Or maybe it’s low-wage work in general that has the effect of making you feel like a pariah. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

While a baby Feral might have caused inconvenience, a baby Ruby had had a more dangerous effect, compounded by the volatility of her nature. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“I think . . . you still have no idea. The effect you can have.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“Beth and I are going over to Kitty Bryant’s to get more flowers for tomorrow,” added Amy, tying a picturesque hat over her picturesque curls, and enjoying the effect as much as anybody. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

He gives me a lopsided grin and says, “The only person I want to see. My Jovian-Plutonian gravitational effect.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“The work of Military Intelligence, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Atomic Energy Commission—all, at one time or another have felt the effect of his falsehoods, evasions, and misrepresentations,” Strauss wrote. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Three nuthatches he found later provided a sorry little step-by-step lesson in cause and effect: one was feeding on an elm, another was found dying of typical DDT symptoms, the third was dead. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

And in effect the sultry darkness into which the students now followed him was visible and crimson, like the darkness of closed eyes on a summer’s afternoon. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Oscar Danilo Blandon, the so-called Johnny Appleseed of Crack, may have been the instigator of one ripple effect, in which by his actions a single person inadvertently causes an ocean of despair. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

He and his brigade of architects, draftsmen, engineers, and contractors had accomplished so much in an impossibly short time, but apparently not enough to overcome the damping effect of the fast-degrading economy. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The effect was galvanizing: his muddied half-chewed tail stirred and he raised his shoulders, then his forelegs, with a convulsive effort, like an old work horse getting up after a fall. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the population as a whole, we must be more concerned with the delayed effects of absorbing small amounts of the pesticides that invisibly contaminate our world. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Without waiting to see the effect of his words, he hurried on. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

But his prose revealed the depth and subtlety of his thinking about how landscape could be modified to produce an effect in the mind. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He could explain it better in the daytime when he had shaken off the effects of his unremembered nightmare. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

But unbeknownst to just about everybody, another remarkably powerful ripple effect—this one moving in the opposite direction—had just come into play. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

These were all side effects of forbidden magic. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

The effect on the bird populations could easily have been foretold. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Their effect on Gale is immediate—the flush on his cheeks, the brightness of his gray eyes. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

But the effect makes it look like a wild, untamed lagoon. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

But Sarah still has the magical melting effect on hardened adults. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

To produce the kind of landscape effects Olmsted strived to create required not months but years, even decades. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Our mission was to effect an internal revolution rather than wait for an outside rescue. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though I think even if it were light I would not effect my oft-drilled calm, which I have done for her a hundred times but will not do now. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He cued sound effects and music to fade in and out. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

What happens is that deep in the Earth there is an explosion that fires, in effect, a cannonball of magma to the surface at supersonic speeds. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“The effect is perhaps more quaint than awesome.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think I would do an arm transplant, even if it were possible. Could have some scary side effects.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

For Mary Anne Bell, it seemed, Vietnam had the effect of a powerful drug: that mix of unnamed terror and unnamed pleasure that comes as the needle slips in and you know you’re risking something. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

When you suddenly stop taking them, if you don’t have seizures and die, those side effects go away within a day or two. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

In effect, as a hero who’d come to the island and performed great deeds, he’d become part of the Icelandic sagas. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

To me, a doctor’s preparations for work of any kind are stimulating and bracing, but the effect of these things on both Arthur and Quincey was to cause them a sort of consternation. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

My yelling and scolding didn’t have much effect, but the swinging coat did. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

But cause and effect are not always easy to measure. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Extreme care must be used in order to create an insecticidal effect in the blood and tissues of the host without setting up a fatal poisoning. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Pim was sitting next door and that had a calming effect. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

He was not able to gauge the effect of the mild pills he took occasionally to help him sleep and felt guilty about for days afterward. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

They were apparently waiting for the effects of the Nirvana gun to wear off the Gondwannans who had been shot by the strange man. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Once again I had the impression that she chose her words with care, that she was feeling her way, as it were, into my mind, and watching for the effect upon my face. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

In more peaceful days, these skills had only been used at fairs and sporting contests, but now, when the need arose, they would be used with more deadly effect. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

He slapped her on the cheek and it had no effect. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He worked a sedative effect on the whole barn. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

From these two opposed appetites, there arises in cities one of three effects: a principality, liberty, or licence. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

Like the pain of a bad wound, the effect of a deep shock takes some while to be felt. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The effects of tide and current baffled them. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

This destructive effect, known since 1948, was at first believed to be confined to dogs, because it was not revealed in such experimental animals as monkeys, rats, or rabbits. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The Marshall game was only the second of the season, and since it wasn’t a league contest it had no effect on whether Permian made the playoffs. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not only would that be groveling, it probably wouldn’t achieve the desired effect; Dana would still hassle him without mercy. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had a notion about the air down here and its ameliorating effects on the circulation. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

It was an inborn talent, requiring none of the trying cabalistic study to which her Uncle Marcos had applied himself with far more effort and far less effect. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

With all the subtlety of a bulldozer I wrote my paper on the effect bipolar parents have on their children. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

They go on to talk about the heat, and someone suggests the cooling effect that evaporating alcohol has on the skin—although I suspect any alcohol is being otherwise employed. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

In the weeks between these two dates, frenzied Americans went to great lengths to obtain as much liquor as possible before the act went into effect. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Aside from that, the only serious effect was the death of Nana. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the inevitable chain of cause and effect, as soon as the first black family had moved onto the block, the white neighbors immediately put their houses up for sale. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Like nuclear fusion, it’s not easy to explain but it had an enormous effect. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

It had the effect of outlining their bodies so that he could see them both clearly for the first time. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“I have never seen such an effect, physical and moral, produced by the utterance of one word,” marvels the Confederate major. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

So the properties of these standing waves, which are always produced in very specific groups, or series, have far-reaching effects on music theory. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

This looked casual but had the effect of pushing out her chest. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Well, it wasn’t good at the time—not at all—but it’s good now. Because now you can see the result. Cause and effect, cause and effect. Now you know.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

The effect is almost identical to the upward view of the night sky from outside. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Contained at last, the fires could be dealt with, with real effect. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Their fifty-three patients were, in effect, a clinical trial, and an astonishingly successful one. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

As 11:00 approached, his companions watching from the spaceship would find the intervals between successive signals from the astronaut getting longer and longer, but this effect would be very small before 10:59:59. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whatever spell the witch had tried to cast apparently had no effect. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

There was no South Korean version of the “9/11” effect that propelled the United States into wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Very little research has been done to determine the effects of low levels of these poisons. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Hence, for the student of world history, the phenomenon of writing is particularly useful for exploring another important constellation of causes: geography’s effect on the ease with which ideas and inventions spread. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He was also convinced that mercury in most fillings has a toxic effect on the body. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

At first he used electronic techniques to make incremental transformations to a pattern, later having live players and acoustic instruments imitate this effect under his very specific and detailed configuration. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Billy thought hard about the effect the quartet had had on him, and then found an association with an experience he had had long ago. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Almost nothing stayed in my stomach yesterday, and I'm already starting to feel the effects of hunger. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Only a few decades ago, no one knew these effects of either radiation or chemicals. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Lee wanted to reassure him, but he waited, giving it time to sink in, to take effect, like medicine. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They took turns getting on top of each other, trading ineffectual blows with inharmonious sound effects that made it seem as though they were fighting to the death. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The second major component of swing was a lilting effect achieved by subtly shifting the subdivisions of the given four-in- a-bar beat. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

In effect, he was saying that when someone is finished texting, their minds can still be so absorbed in the task that they do not know what is going on around them. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The words “Oh, you’re late” had the effect of making someone who was ordinarily compassionate into someone who was indifferent to suffering — of turning someone, in that particular moment, into a different person. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But its effect on the nascent science was profound: it locked a system of thinking into place. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Technically, my six-month ban for swimming in the fountain was still in effect. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

New government environmental regulations for oil drilling were having an even more profound effect on the Osage’s underground reservation. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

But when they reached the Firedrake's stomach their effect was like no honey in the world. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

I listened closely to their conversating, but they blew only hot air, complaining about the Congress and the weather and the effect of war on business. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Welles wore headphones so that he could hear all the voices, music, and sound effects. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Among the personal effects that authorities will later find are a broken comb, tobacco, embroidered slippers, and one very telling scrap of paper. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Time wore on, but it seemed to have little effect on Mr. Baggins. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The only other way he could have achieved this curling effect, we boys decided, was by prolonged upward brushing with a hard toothbrush in front of the looking-glass every morning. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You do realize the effect this will have on your future? You do understand what you’re giving up? This will impact the opportunities you’ll have open to you for the rest of your life.” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“So in effect”—Mum folded her napkin—“you're telling me to stick to jam making and leave the grown-up decisions to the one in the trousers?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

To soften the effect of his speech, Douglass offered some kind words about Stanton. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

This did not have the effect that he wanted, because Esperanza refused to break her stare with him. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

It would alleviate the perception of Odessa High as the “Mexican school,” which was having the inevitable effect of steering middle-class whites away from the west side. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Every two years, someone comes up with an experiment in which he rotates a magnet or something and expects to get the effect he wanted, but he doesn’t and can’t understand why,” he told Lawrence. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I can't tell if adrenaline is keeping me from feeling other effects of my fall. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

And because the death penalty is rarely given for crimes other than homicide, its deterrent effect cannot account for a speck of decline in other violent crimes. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

And while the mouse slept, Roscuro put his terrible plan into effect. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

She showed no ill effects of the small fit at the Battery. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the segregation laws were designed to reduce friction by keeping the races apart, in practice they had the opposite effect. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The fact that an accused man was deprived of a fair trial, kidnapped and murdered by a lynch mob from a Mississippi jail apparently had no effect on the thinking of the Grand Jury. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The net effect was that for all his quiet humility the man’s wide-ranging knowledge and quiet eloquence commanded absolute respect, and never more than when he was at work in his shop, plying his craft. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

It looks like the special effects from a superhero movie. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

The effect is even more pronounced when the sample is widened beyond the most common names. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Don Hume tried to throw off the effects of a nasty cold. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“In all my years in psychology, I have never run into an effect this large,” Barnsley says. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Then he leaned over and put a hand beside his mouth, as if he did not wish to be overheard, an effect slightly lessened by his whisper, which was loud enough to deafen. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Azoth distilled from the alchemist’s own spirit had no effect on it at all. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

If it had been a reverberating gong, that sound could not have had more violent effect. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Kreuk has already checked the pockets and laid her personal effects on top of the coat. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Kyla raises her hand and adds, “Requiring the police to use body cameras,” and “The effects of the private prison industry.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

As I observed the effect of this leak, it was as if clouds had suddenly opened,” Ellsberg later said of this turning point in his life. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

You can imagine the effect that Hofstede’s findings had on people in the aviation industry. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

The effects of this visit, the hospital staff reports, were felt for days afterward. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

We need, in effect, to be nearsighted and farsighted at the same time. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

It is confined almost entirely to the effects of DDT. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Or the red shift might be a Doppler effect due not to the general expansion of the universe but rather to a more modest and local galactic explosion. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the effects of the witchery of the evil thing began to leave his body. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Simmon showed the effects almost immediately, laughing louder, grinning wider, and fidgeting in his seat. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Season is not a hemispheric effect but a global one, a result of the elliptoid orbit. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

The stage is vast, the lighting is dramatic, the extras are innumerable, and the budget for special effects is absolutely unlimited. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

It must be the immediate effect of the aspirin. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

He leaned forward to give us the full effect of his red eyebrows and prominent jaw. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I should be okay tomorrow. They want to make sure I don’t have any lingering effects.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He signs me out, and I hold my stomach for added effect. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Lord Roke was impervious to her charm, but interested in its effect on others. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The films often had the opposite effect: Despite the mountains of evidence, many Hitler Youth told themselves that the films were exaggerated, if not invented by the Allies as propaganda intended to defame the Nazis. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“In small doses, it has a mild, calming effect and improves the mood. The only side effect is some slight dizziness. We administer it to members of our community who have trouble keeping the peace.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

It can best be approached by concentrating attention on historical patterns that remain puzzling after the effects of major environmental factors have been taken into account. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

And while the madwoman was accustomed to a bit of discomfort, the movement of the paper wings was having an effect on her skin. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Pheasant hunters felt the effects of the beetle campaign sharply. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

It is not easy, however, to separate brain damage from the effects of fear. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harris argued that the top-down influence of parents is overwhelmed by the grassroots effect of peer pressure, the blunt force applied each day by friends and schoolmates. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

In effect, however, although I was not biologically related, I was raised in the Dean household as the baby of the family, and considered the Deans to be my “real” family. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Though with Black Protocol in effect there wasn’t much she could do about it. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I could not think of much else that would involve this much whispering and secrecy, or that would have so strong an effect on Bunny. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

In the current political climate, conservatives extol marriage as the solution to many of society’s ills, while liberals argue that it alone cannot compensate for the effects of imperiled neighborhoods and failing schools. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Like Venus, the Earth also has a greenhouse effect due to its carbon dioxide and water vapor. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The purpose of such irrelevant details—the pewter plates, the glorious eggs—is to create what Roland Barthes called ‘the reality effect’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Anybody who could have that effect on Mother, we thought, must be a very important person. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

It doesn’t appear that Robert was unhappy about the new baby; he just seemed to get a kick out of the name’s bookend effect. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

It was late afternoon; she’d only just risen, and it took her some time to shake off the effects of lull, the draught she drank to help her sleep. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“No, child. Not gold. I blended the colors, contrasting bright yellow with darker hues. That’s what gives it a three-dimensional effect.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

With all of his strength, he heaved the bottle and heard it hit the roof of the car with greater sound effects than he had expected it to. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its customers, in effect, become part of its sales and research and development teams. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

Charles modeled his own book after Paley’s, because he wanted The Origin to have the same effect on others that Paley’s had had on him when he first read it at Cambridge. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The audience probably thought it was for dramatic effect, but I was mostly trying to steady my breathing. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

The study concluded that the effect on Americans of radioactive emissions from nuclear tests was vastly outweighed by their exposure to diagnostic X-rays and other common sources. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

And this brings us to Hume’s third category of connections, cause and effect. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

When, after a thousand-year stupor, European thought shook off the effect of the sleeping powders so skilfully administered by the Christian Fathers, the problem of infinity was one of the first to be revived. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Perhaps tracking Salim was like tracking the weather - only without knowing about the Coriolis effect. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

I dreamed I was back at the beginning and they were starting on me all over again, a side effect of having to watch them work on someone else. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

I tried to be stern with him, as one is to a woman under the circumstances; but it had no effect. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

The most tangible and enduring antislavery effects of the revolutionary mentality occurred in the northern states during and immediately after the war. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The effect was like an alarm bell on the other two. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Being around children had a wonderful obliterative effect, wiping out school stress, forcing me out of my head and into the moment. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

To understand its effect on birds one need only remember that in laboratory experiments on quail dieldrin has proved to be about 50 times as poisonous as DDT. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I never could have imagined how strong the effect would be. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Yet geography obviously has some effect on history; the open question concerns how much effect, and whether geography can account for history’s broad pattern. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Whatever restorative effects a town visit offered always vanished with astounding swiftness on the trail. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

In addition to war and crime and cruelty, we have to worry about environmental problems—about pollution, the growing hole in the ozone layer, the greenhouse effect, and global warming. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

We put his personal effects in a plastic bag and tied the bag to his arm. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps the most dramatic effect of legalized abortion, however, and one that would take years to reveal itself, was its impact on crime. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

His public performances on television and at meeting halls produced an almost terrifying effect. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

A side effect of the sleep syrup is that it makes people less inhibited, like white liquor, and I know I have to control my tongue. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

But, in its context, this isn’t delivered for comic or bathetic effect. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

The effect was as though I had just stepped out of a prison. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The effect was to make his heavily scarred face look more twisted and contorted than ever, but it was nevertheless good to know that he ever did anything as friendly as smile. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“The man we have to thank for the Jovian- Plutonian gravitational effect.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I would wonder why I had stressed over that research paper I’d written at Duke on the economic effects of Reconstruction if working at the Dollar Store was to be my life’s work. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

When the curvature of space-time becomes large, quantum gravitational effects will become important and the classical theory will cease to be a good description of the universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The effect wouldn’t be the same if Matt were a drooling, blubbering thing on a hospital bed. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

We can determine the present rate of expansion by measuring the velocities at which other galaxies are moving away from us, using the Doppler effect. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The entire effect would be surreal except the clothes are ridiculously wrinkled. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

Ebola has particularly nasty effects on pregnant women. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She lay under a tree to let the water take effect. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because it was relatively heavy, the effect was small. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

A vast amount, of course, is contributed by Negroes, but there are rumors to the effect that people like Birchites and certain Texas oil millionaires look with favor on the movement. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

However, the fact that it is both long range and always attractive means that its effects all add up. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

We knew of the phenomenon called the Bradley effect, named for an African American candidate, Tom Bradley, who’d run for governor in California in the early 1980s. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

In March 1925, Hoover had reinstated Wren but only after warning him, “Unless you measure up to the standards that are now in effect in this Bureau, I will be compelled to request your resignation.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He was reaching for his third towel when he passed out from the combined effects of loss of blood and the fifth of whiskey he had drunk earlier. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

He had a singer’s voice, a voice that had the same effect on my ears that Mama working Pears baby oil into my hair had on my scalp. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I crouched against the wall and watched them injure each other without touching each other, hurling words that had the same effect as acid on metal. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“As you can see,” Mr. Curtain was saying, “my machine is capable of much more than whispering. It is capable of shouting. And I’m afraid the final effect is—how to put it? Quite deafening.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Julie had shot the factory from a crane, so that the effect for the viewer was of floating just above the snaking pipes and smokestacks. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

This was not because the diet was at last taking effect, but due to fright. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I suppose there had been some confident belief in the rehabilitative effects of playing a good American team sport. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Or again the harm may be done by two or more different carcinogens acting together, so that there is a summation of their effects. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Since Mags seems to have no ill effects from the nuts, Peeta collects bunches of them and fries them by bouncing them off the force field. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The effect of it wasn’t very dignified, so Father retreated back to his pulpit made of wired-together palm fronds and raised up one hand, intending I guess to pronounce the benediction. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Cain proved the physical transformative effects, and Kaltain proves the ability to influence thoughts and emotions. I would like to test its full ability to hone the minds of a few others.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Somewhere in the middle of that exercise, the cold pills took effect, and I gladly sank into unconsciousness. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The shaking lasted for four minutes with the usual devastating effects to property. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Sound effects and music were just as important. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

This dampens the tragic effect, and the curtain comes down on laughter. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

It would have a repulsive gravitational effect, and thus make those regions expand in an inflationary manner. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

A fat warty toad that looked out at him from under the watering trough had no emotional effect on him at all. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

While I was driving back to Johannesburg, the Free State scenery did not have quite the same elevating effect on me as before. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She would take me into her apartment and talk to me, but her words had no effect. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t be upset. It just slipped out. She has that effect on people.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I was too dizzy, too nauseous, for the effect to be immediate. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Persons thus poisoned recover so slowly as to indicate chronic effects. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

It has been known to infest beehives, with disastrous effects on the honey. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The province of the Orange Free State has always had a magical effect on me, though some of the most racist elements of the white population call the Free State their home. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

This does not matter too much, because gravity is such a weak force that its effects can usually be neglected when we are dealing with elementary particles or atoms. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

All of this had the effect of making a monstrous chute where the water fought and roared to get through, smashing around the rocks in huge sprays of white water. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Much of this she could effect with her dress, but as the girl grew older, more elaborate specifications had to be put in place. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The owl had said, in effect: Either Timothy alone must die, or they must all die together. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

They getting plastered, he thought, feeling the effect of the rum creeping outward to his fingers and upward to his lips. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

She encouraged the young women under her command to think about the effects of their own actions. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“I must be on my way. The effects of sweetgrass are only temporary, and I must return to my pond. Don’t forget our agreement. I saved your life; now you must save mine.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

At sunset I try to hypnotise her, but alas! with no effect; the power has grown less and less with each day, and to-night it fail me altogether. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Their mind-muddying effects were daily diminishing, the Emergency was fading, and minds long closed to truth were opening again, like flowers craving sunlight. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

But the effect was only due to a momentary lifting of the fog, and after a minute it closed in again. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even before my terror can blossom, the venom takes effect and in an instant, I don’t care. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

It now seems reasonably clear that the high surface temperature comes about through a massive greenhouse effect. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a lingering effect of the life he had known in Camp 14. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

In effect, Mount Vernon became an enclave within enemy territory, surrounded by neighbors committed to a Virginia-writ-large version of the American republic. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The change it had been able to effect in Mrs. Taylor showed that its strength could not be resisted. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wrote authoritatively on magnetism, tides, and the motions of the planets, and fondly on the effects of opium. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

In roulette, what’s occurred previously has no effect on the probability of future spins of the wheel. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

But for Josquin, chordal harmony was too useful a tool in illuminating the text to worry about its effect on the modes. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Call it a side effect of being struck by lightning. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The letter, whoever had written it, had achieved its intended effect. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

One wants to respect cultural differences, but the effect here is dismaying—the city that gave us Cleopatra now obliges women to hide their faces. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

Lenina did her best to stop the ears of her mind; but every now and then a phrase would insist on becoming audible. “. . . to try the effect of arresting my impulses,” she heard him say. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

And despite our measured pace I had begun to feel the effects of the altitude, which left me light-headed and constantly fighting for breath. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

As for Miss Kenton, I seem to remember the mounting tension of those days having a noticeable effect upon her. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

"She has no idea. The effect she can have." The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

One interesting aspect of Greek modes is that different modes were considered to have very different effects, not only on a person's mood, but even on character and morality. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

When it came to Nergal, the desert hybrid had neutralized the effects of the original flower I'd brought back from the Sea of Tiamat, as Ishtar had suspected would happen. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The overall effect, he wrote, “is thus to be in some degree of the character of a theatrical scene, to occupy the Exposition stage for a single summer.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

New laws went into effect specifically designed to quell black anger. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are practical side effects to all this costly effort. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

What if his words had the effect of polio on me? Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The surface was covered with razor-sharp edges and spikes, seemingly impervious to the smoothing effects of the seawater barrage. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

This proposal had the effect of cheering Harry up a great deal. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Most of the buildings are red brick too; some have arched doorways, a Romanesque effect, from the nineteenth century. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s good to know I can have that effect on her. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

In effect, the meter is defined to be the distance traveled by light in 0.000000003335640952 second, as measured by a cesium clock. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is doubtful that Ernest needed a reminder of the neutron effects on the body; more likely he needed constant goading to take the appropriate precautions. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“Segregation of white and colored children in public schools has a detrimental effect upon colored children,” ruled the Court. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The effect of his injury on the masters seemed deeper than after other disasters I remembered there. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had some effect on Uncle Andrew, for Digory could hear him saying, “A spirited gel, sir. It’s a pity about her temper, but a dem fine woman all the same, a dem fine woman.” The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Newt yelled, standing for effect this time; once again Thomas felt like cheering. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Chrissie paused and looked at each of us, maybe for dramatic effect, maybe to check us for signs of recognition. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

We are rightly appalled by the genetic effects of radiation; how then, can we be indifferent to the same effect in chemicals that we disseminate widely in our environment? Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

How easy it is to effect change in fiction. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

A rumor started, and spread, to the effect that there was an underground railroad too. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When I’d become aware of my state of mind, I would be frightened and snap back with a healthy smile and a hearty handshake. Such is the effect of the sweet smell of money.” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her governess was now urgently signalling her to return to her own table—in effect, to stop bothering the man. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

The sight of the awful and majestic in nature had indeed always the effect of solemnising my mind and causing me to forget the passing cares of life. Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the end of the year there was another incident, this time away from the school, that was to have a major effect on me. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

They are, in effect, still trapped in a history which they do not understand; and until they understand it, they cannot be released from it. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

The effect is almost magical, erasing the pain on contact, leaving a pleasant cooling sensation behind. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

When you talk about Churchill’s “great rolling periods”— meaning his long, mellifluous sentences—you are primarily talking about sound effects: the gather and surge of a sentence toward its climax. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

She and her little girls all wear their hair in short spikes bursting out all over their heads, giving an effect similar to a pincushion. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Impermanence, cause and effect, suffering, desire, the precious nature of life. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Even Ruby’s fire had no effect on it. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

She began her sound effects career collaborating with her husband, Arthur Nichols, who invented the first sound machines for radio. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

He’s just back from tour, his face ruddy from the effects of days on the road. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Parts of Greenland, Ireland, Scotland, and Scandinavia have the same rocks as the eastern United States—are, in effect, ruptured outposts of the Appalachians. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

What about the effects of idiosyncratic individual people? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The effect was the opposite on human noses. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, some symptoms required slightly more drastic measures to effect a cure. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

His store is a straight-up scream fest, not to mention the extra sound effects from the loud TV he keeps behind the counter—cowboy movies on repeat. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

While the results of weed killers such as sodium arsenite or the phenols are grossly obvious, some other herbicides are more insidious in their effects. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

As I walked away from our house, I thought about the Coriolis effect. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

The girls all know home remedies, since most of them have had to get rid of unwanted side effects of their profession. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The effects of smoking on the body are becoming well known, but the effects of space flight were largely unknown in 1965. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, yeah? What kind of scary side effects?” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The whole effect is wild and disheveled but essentially friendly. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In effect, Jay’s Treaty was a repudiation of the Franco-American alliance of 1778, which had been so instrumental in gaining French military assistance for the winning of the American Revolution. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“I will ask you a series of simple questions so that you can grow accustomed to the serum as it takes full effect,” says Niles. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Some teachers ascribed the drop in academic performance to the effects of court-ordered desegregation as well as a rapid increase in the town’s Hispanic population. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The warm water would have a good effect on me. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had four telegrams, one each day since we started, and all to the same effect: that the Czarina Catherine had not been reported to Lloyd’s from anywhere. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Now, in death, this constancy crystallized and became something else entirely: he was an old familiar jokester cast—with surprising effect—in the tragic role. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

In effect, the head of the house becomes the youngest child. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How curious,” said Frank, “you’d think it would have just the opposite effect.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe the blurring of identity, the mob release, has an effect on Tessie, inspiring the kind of hysteria Sinatra does. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

That’s the kind of lousy effect the teacher had on him. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

As his career progressed, his music became more and more about aural effect and emotional manipulation. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

In the days, weeks, months, and even years that followed, millions of words would be written about the causes of Prohibition, the reasons for its failure, and its effects on the nation. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

This request had the effect on me a Gestapo knock on the door might have. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

We are accustomed to look for the gross and immediate effect and to ignore all else. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The laws were, in effect, another racial bribe. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

When the main action went into a lull, sporadic sniping would break out: bow, lance, sling and spear all coming into play with deadly effect. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

He would dress her in rich robes, trying the effect of one delicate or glowing color after another, and imagine she was pleased. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The effect was as though the blow had actually landed, however. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

At CTW, the idea of learning through repetition was called the James Earl Jones effect. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he expected an effect he did not get one. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Such studies will no doubt be directed largely toward measuring the effects of radiation, but it must not be overlooked that many chemicals are the partners of radiation, producing precisely the same effects. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

In the future we may have telescopes in the Earth’s orbit, around toward the other side of the Sun, in effect a radio telescope as large as the inner solar system. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I, Grendel, was the dark side, he said in effect. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Hodag’s magic resides largely in its horns which, when powdered, make a man immune to the effects of alcohol and able to go without sleep for seven days and seven nights. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

And when he's done I want to say: "There is a qualitative difference in the visual effect of the room." Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

He once wrote and told her that all the punishment and whippings doled out by Danny had, for all their horror, one positive side effect. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

She can state the cause first or the effect first, and the causal force can either make something happen or prevent it from happening. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

I mentioned something to that effect while we were doing the dishes, and Dussel launched into a veritable tirade. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

The preacher smiles, as though he knows exactly the effect of his words, and continues. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“Say, why don’t you wrap a bandage around me for effect ?” “That sounds like a splendid idea,” applauded the doctor. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

She will be swayed, if not by my logic, then by the sheer fact that already the disastrous effects of her exile can be seen: Shadowshapers slip away daily. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Something in her tone reminded me of the other girl's "I think he killed a man," and had the effect of stimulating my curiosity. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

The effect was only a little short of biblical, with barking, gurgling, screaming dogs, swearing, gurgling, screaming fisherman, and a thrashing, tearing, panicking doe in a mess of rolling canoe, mud, and water.... This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Those include confounding effects of natural variation in additional variables besides the one of interest, as well as problems in inferring chains of causation from observed correlations between variables. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Hortensia paused to observe the effect these remarks were having on the two titchy ones. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

A little farther along two bears showed up, and the effect was doubled. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is possible that Mr. Bear was framed, and we intend to produce evidence to that effect. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

“She was not rising to the oncoming seas. The weight of the ice was having its effect, and she was becoming more like a log than a boat.” Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

I open my mouth just like they did, hoping they’ll think my trembling is a side effect of just coming out of stasis. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

What an instrument is made of has a direct effect on its timbre. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

As the hero put it on, the effect was the same as that of the robe Medea had sent her rival whom Jason was about to marry. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s what we call the Bucks County effect, but it falls outside of that.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

And repetition in larger narrative structures—as witness the shape of everything from fairytales and myths to The Gruffalo—is what makes them seem coherent, memorable, self-achieved, and, in effect, meaningful. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Today they tested my blood to make sure it was clean of the painkiller, as the mixture of the two drugs — the morphling and whatever’s set my ribs on fire—has dangerous side effects. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

It would be, in effect, paying the government for incarcerating him for a month. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Within five years, the effects of the civil rights revolution were undeniable. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

His procrastination would have disastrous effects, if you believe in that sort of thing, which, some days, when the old Greek blood is running high, I do. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

A side effect of the surgery, he discovered early in the Everest climb, was that the low barometric pressure that exists at high altitude caused his eyesight to fail. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

I keep my jaw clenched so that she cannot see the effect these words have on me. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“Thank you, I will. Come Amy.” and Jo brought the visit to an end, feeling more strongly than ever that calls did have a bad effect upon her constitution. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bronwyn finished dragging the rock to the middle of the stage, and for an awkward moment she just stared into the crowd, as if someone had told her to pause for dramatic effect. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

They cool the brain by bringing air high into the nasal passage, which has the effect of increasing alertness. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

They were in one of those long breaks in the sermon that the priest, a connoisseur of unbearable silences, used with frequency and to great effect. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

But all this planning to create division had the strangest effect: It made Hawaii into the most ethnically diverse place in the world. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

The blood in the gut looked like the effects of a monkey virus called simian hemorrhagic fever, or shf. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

On first seeing the broken ride, I'd assumed it was designed to pause at frequent intervals, allowing those onboard to feel the full effect of their discomfort. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

The Court of Honor produced an effect of majesty and beauty that was far greater than even the dream conjured in the Rookery library. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I did not know how soon the mandragora would take effect. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

On the rare occasion that they did catch a real witch or wizard, burning had no effect whatsoever. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

The warm and fuzzy effect of his hug had already worn off. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Sarah Pocket then made her separate effect of departing with, “Bless you, Miss Havisham dear!” and with a smile of forgiving pity on her walnut-shell countenance for the weaknesses of the rest. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

The added depressive effect of the organic phosphate may then be enough to precipitate acute symptoms. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Within one year, cancer becomes little more than a nuisance—curable with one treatment and no side effects. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

A third to address the side effects of the first two. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

However, the existence of dark matter is widely accepted because it explains the discrepancies found between the mass of large astronomical objects and their gravitational effect. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

I don’t like that Hudson has any effect on me. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

And why Maya wouldn’t understand the effect her note had on me and Summer. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Prison had that kind of effect on many men. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I need you to be careful with the flower of immortality when you find it. If you get contaminated by it—if its pollen or sap enters your system—there could be adverse side effects." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

His letters to the War Department, printed simultaneously in the newspapers, began to have a sharp effect in decisions on the army. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

After our summer in Europe, Katz had gone back to Des Moines and had become, in effect, Iowa’s drug culture. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

When it is removed the effect is startling, almost shocking. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The effect of bathing in pure, clean, salt-free water was more than I can put into words. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

He says in effect to his reader, “Never mind how silly they are. I will dress them up so prettily for you that you will like them.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

But they didn’t know what effects any of this would have on humans: Would it cause cellular changes, or even cell death? The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Ptolemaeus’s epochal influence has had the effect of making ancient astronomy seem, to us, a lot less diverse than it was. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

But Mary’s pleas against any additional delay finally have an effect. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

For some reason, snail-like mollusks seem to be almost immune to the effects of insecticides. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

And it had an effect on the ghosts, too: seeing Will standing unafraid and unharmed, they began to drift back toward the travelers. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

One kemmer, or several, could be skipped thus without ill effect. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

My meeting with the regent had a double effect. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

This showed that the real effect of a force is always to change the speed of a body, rather than just to set it moving, as was previously thought. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I invent a pill that will allow you to drink seawater, and another that will erase the effects of either twelve cups of tea or seven beers and two scotches. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

He ceased, in effect, to be part of mankind. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

The mystery was in the instant before it moved, the dividing moment between not moving and moving, when her intention took effect. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

They studied the infinitesimal effects of spit on snow and history. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

In effect, God was confined to the areas that nineteenth-century science did not understand. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She knew, though, that any such admission would have a depressing effect on Dad, who took it for granted that his children had talent for everything. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Smoking can have totally weird effects on your body.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Times like this, I sure wish we had a color television so I could get the full effect of her outfit. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Classical music in the mid-twentieth century was mostly about the brain and the intellect: the conceptual theory behind a composition had become more important than the sensory effect of the music. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I continued: As US citizens, we are always mindful of the effects of terrorism. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The curling iron continues up until it curls back into itself, weaving in and out amongst the other curls, giving it the cage-like effect. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He came through fine, and he is alive today, with no ill effects from his exposure. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had a deep baritone voice that was surprising in a man so small, and he used it to good effect, bellowing out commands with absolute authority. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

There was unemployment in the North, and in the capital the effects of the distant war were still being felt. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Statistically, part of that ultimate effect of history proves to be mediated by the familiar proximate causes of good institutions. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

There is some passing acknowledgment of the bad old days, which, by the way, were not so bad as to have any ongoing effect on our present. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

A foot soldier’s incentive was to make a name for himself; J. T.’s incentive was, in effect, to keep the foot soldiers from doing so. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Oh, the effects of it were real—the rising prices, the shortage of everything, the news that so-and-so had been killed in some faraway battle. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

But all they play is a program of organ music that reminds me of High Mass at the cathedral and has the same effect. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

“The selected entries will be published in the Carolina Times”—Mrs. Grayson paused for effect—“and the first-place winner will receive twenty-five dollars!” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Many of the chemical agents in this alarming melange imitate and augment the harmful effects of radiation, and within the groups of chemicals themselves there are sinister and little-understood interactions, transformations, and summations of effect. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Also, sound effects are added to enhance the action or bring a fuller meaning or experience. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

My father preferred beer, but Chibuku was cheaper and had the same effect. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Had old Fu Manchu known from the beginning that I was wearing, among other misleading attachments and effects, a nineteen-year-old boy’s moustache? Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

The net effect is a coordinated mechanism for the regulation of rates of growth and occupations of territory. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was not polite; nor strictly true, for the sale of Bag End did not take effect until midnight. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Dieldrin, besides its immediate consequences, can have long delayed effects ranging from “loss of memory, insomnia, and nightmares to mania.” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The fact that the same joke, the same style, has no effect in France or England or Italy makes this contention valid. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead I just swayed in the wind and sipped my beer, thinking how beer had the exact opposite effect on us two: it made me all dumb as a rock and him halfway literate. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

It must have been a placebo effect, but it was a great placebo effect. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Eliminating the backbreaking need to hand-pump every drop of water had another beneficial effect as well. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

However, it belongs to the same group of arthropods as the blue crab, has essentially the same physiology, and would presumably suffer the same effects. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Later I receive a box of his personal effects—his wristwatch, letters I wrote to him, some clothes. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Heqet must have been satisfied with the effect he had created, for his eyes glistened. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

This exposes it to the full lethal effect of the DDT stored in the tissues. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

This made me think of the Coriolis effect again and how it is invisible but can make things change direction. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

In other words, the net effect of crack is still being felt in the form of violent crime, to say nothing of the miseries the drug itself continues to cause. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

If Edward had taken the suit, and left, and never come back, he would, in effect, have doomed Mr. Loomis to stay in the laboratory—perhaps forever—probably forever. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

At first she resisted because she knew that Herbert was still suffering the effects of his time in combat, but ultimately she gave in. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“I’m making an analogy to the Casimir effect, where you can push plates together with a noticeable radiation pressure from the vacuum,’’ he says. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

I culled symptoms of mono, plantar warts, shingles, borderline personality disorder and a bladder infection, as well as listing a bunch of side effects from some TV ads for drugs. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was a side effect Ben had never mentioned. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

We do not understand the long-term effects of our course of action. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The second distinguishing characteristic of these two examples is that in both cases little changes had big effects. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jefferson, in effect, needed to liberate himself from nostalgic memories. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

He did not know whether the thing was really happening, or whether the effect was electrically produced; but his body was being wrenched out of shape, the joints were being slowly tom apart. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Rather than offset the effect with a string of pearls, she reached in a moment’s inspiration for a necklace of pure jet. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Papa’s voice, his gentle, calm, reasonable demeanor, often had that effect. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

You’re living in the moment on a cloud somewhere, not thinking, not considering costs, effects, consequences. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

As it happens, Denis Papin, who had qualified as a doctor, was the first to describe the placebo and the placebo effect, in a letter to Leibniz, 11 or 12 August 1704. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I was pretty cool about it until the effects of the last dose actually wore off. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

In theory, scientists can get energy from the Casimir effect even at absolute zero in the bleakest part of the vacuum of space. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

This sounds very simple, but its psychological effects are incalculable. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

He does special effects for movies now, to support his artist habit. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

They had been nervous about the effects upon their own animals, or even upon their human employees. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

The whole effect was appalling—a pile of junk. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

But from the standpoint of an observer moving with you—perhaps the scooter has a second seat—none of these effects occur. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here, for the first time, I found ways and techniques of gauging meaningfully the effects of American civilization upon the personalities of people. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He said some other words to that effect, and then we went upstairs. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“It seems to me,” Lee wrote, “that we southern people must be slaves in effect, or cut the Gordion knot at once.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

As Will had found with the smoke of his fire, that had the effect of defining the angel’s body so he could see it more clearly. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

In effect, a band is an extended family or several related extended families. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Love held up the dummy head with the pink velour wrapping, turning it this way and that to get the effect. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The television crew means to provide a sense of heightened jeopardy by releasing smoke bombs and adding gunfire sound effects. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The combined effect was that truth usually went marching on. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression among the side effects of cancer. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Harry amused himself for a while turning the taps on and off, particularly enjoying the effect of one whose jet bounced off the surface of the water in large arcs. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Once there appeared a strange optical effect: when he stood between me and the flame he did not obstruct it, for I could see its ghostly flicker all the same. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

If Tamika could have such a violent stomach-churning reaction, then maybe, just maybe, Fig had suffered the same cause and effect. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Shortly after eleven o’clock, we found them marching in unison in the street; at eleven, curfew regulations went into effect and Africans needed a permit to be outside. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

To their surprise, Professor Moody had announced that he would be putting the Imperius Curse on each of them in turn, to demonstrate its power and to see whether they could resist its effects. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

This has an interesting effect on space-time: the distinction between time and space disappears completely. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even on a fine day, the corridor could be so dark that the effect was like walking through a tunnel. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

They never thought that Bush’s rhetoric, a kinder, gentler version of the “Morton Downey Show,” would have much lasting effect. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Papa could see that his talk had had very little effect on me. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

It irked him that few people seemed to understand the effects he worked so long and hard to create. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

As the starter rose to speak, clearing his throat for effect, Pollard abruptly stood up. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry paused to watch them, for the effect was quite mesmerizing. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps she means to monitor the effects of her gift.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

On meeting my eye, he said plainly, by a momentary and silent pause in that attitude, “Indeed? Singular!” and then put the handkerchief to its right use with wonderful effect. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Hamilton lobbied his Federalist colleagues in the House to support Jefferson over Burr for the presidency, a decision that probably had a decisive effect on the eventual outcome. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

In effect, the natural processes of differential survival and reproduction do the selecting. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The situation is made even more complicated by the fact that one chemical may act on another to alter its effect. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Without the concern for the effect she might be having on the surroundings, she is able to relax into the sensation instead of resisting it. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Also, sound effects can be added to enhance the action or bring a fuller meaning or experience. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

This was, in effect a wind gun driven by atmospheric pressure and where the piston replaced the bullet. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The emotional effect of saving and being saved was addicting to both of us. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He turned to Mother to observe the effect of his words on her. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The Exposition Universelle of 1889 was, in effect, the starting point of the twentieth century’s preoccupation with what we now call ‘world music’. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The authorities then filled each half with rich, moist soil, creating in effect thirty-two giant flowerpots. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had never been planned; it had grown piecemeal, with past and present overlapping at every spot, and the final effect was one of jumbled and squalid grandeur. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The grammatical mood is imperative, but the rhetorical effect is one of intimacy and humility. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

I could hear Dad calling me, but I never answered until my medicine took effect. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

It took them close to an hour to accomplish the move, but, sweating and breathing hard, they admired their fortress effect. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ve heard of the effect of moon sand, but never would I have imagined it to be such!” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

According to Newton’s second law, these two effects will exactly cancel each other, so the acceleration will be the same in all cases. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Let me give you an example of the threshold effect in action. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Harry thought he recognized Luna’s style: The effect, in such an enclosed space, was slightly overwhelming. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The effect of one of Leon’s anecdotes was to make his listener warm to humankind and its failings. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Two eggs and a laying hen” and “Push, you cow” were the words that occurred to her, but when Beetle spoke them they did not have the same effect as when the midwife did. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The souvenir pamphlet noted that even a full load of passengers had “no more effect on the movements or the speed than if they were so many flies”—an oddly ungracious allusion. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

In effect, he used the inherent ambiguity of the offensive statement to evade any direct response to Burr. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The effect is similar to the blue cast of the light reflected by fine smoke particles. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The doctor started operating on me before the drugs took effect. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

They had tumbled into their own symmetry, and it was certainly true that too even a distribution between the irises and the rosebay willow herb ruined the effect. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Damage to the nervous system is not confined to acute poisoning; there may also be delayed effects from exposure. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Then in a surprisingly tender voice, a professional trick, too, no doubt, but not without effect, Presto asked, “Listen, guy, you got any place to stay?” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

But the effect of the last couple of months hangs over the building like a bad smell. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

It was as though the mention of their host and hostess had a curiously paralysing effect upon the guests. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

“Well, that wasn’t quite the effect I was going for.” Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“It’s okay. I think it’s a side effect from... you know, your time in the Underworld. Hopefully it’ll get easier.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

A screen effect that rains confetti down over our thread of messages. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“First just his toes. Then his heels. Finally the rest, both feet. Nothing I’ve given him—no tincture, no tonic—has had the slightest effect in curing him.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

International law, in effect, has been trumped by the strategic interests of North Korea and China. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

I learned how a popular novelist like Dickens, writing for a middle-class audience, makes his readers aware of their ability to effect social reform. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everybody watched hopefully, to see the effect, but Lancelot grabbed the King’s hand and cried in anguish: “For God’s sake, my lord, tell me how I came here?” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you know what it does? You’ve seen the effects of jurda parem. Would you like to feel them, too? It is effective as a powder, but even more so as a gas.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The destruction of Britain’s forests has been suggested as the reason behind its early lead in developing coal technology, but why didn’t deforestation have the same effect in China? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Hence the effect on society is catastrophic when state government collapses, as happened in Britain upon the removal of Roman troops, administrators, and coinage between A.D. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It had a tremendous effect upon me, however. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

This has a direct effect on the frequency and pitch of harmonics, and so it affects the basics of music tremendously. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

A further operation had been performed on him at the Emperor’s command that had had a distinctly calming effect. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

They went to Cinema Park later that day, Laila and Tariq, and had to settle for a Soviet film that was dubbed, to unintentionally comic effect, in Farsi. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“The serum will go into effect in one minute,” he says. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Such was the nature of cause and effect, such was the impermanence of all things. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Or in other words, gravitational effects should travel with infinite velocity, instead of at or below the speed of light, as the special theory of relativity required. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first it was hard to go through each day without making any lasting connections, leaving any life-changing effects. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Cole sniffled purposely, rubbing at his nose for effect. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

“This is highly irregular. In effect, it is an attempt to intimidate this Court.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Turf scribe Jack McDonald surveyed the production and wondered if the net effect would be to inspire Ligaroti or scare him to death. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The more one thought about such numbers, in effect, the more one realized that further thought was futile. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The absence of dirt and three weeks’ worth of hard travel had a noticeable effect on his smooth face. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Furthermore, it suddenly made sense to her that at least one person in the family should get the full effect of the maple sugar. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

It was nearly dark and a curfew would go into effect any minute when we reached the turnoff to Shangla. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Each of these partial theories describes and predicts a certain limited class of observations, neglecting the effects of other quantities, or representing them by simple sets of numbers. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It is intoxicating, certainly, but might it not also be dangerous? An effect of the atmosphere of Hill House? The first sign that we have—as it were—fallen under a spell?” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

I was puzzled, both by the effect of his voice upon me and by the obvious anger of the crowd. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was its integration, against the composer’s wishes, as it happens, of non-musical sound effects into the score. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

He held his breath, afraid that merely breathing on the rock would spoil its healing effect. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

In effect, the burned-out portions of the city were reduced to their 1830’s primitive condition. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was only a cough—a dry little cough but it had the effect of stopping him in full cry He stared at Mr. Justice Wargrave and the latter coughed again. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

The effect was still far less embarrassing to me than pure nakedness. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Had the shock of the shipwreck—the noises, the falling into the sea, the terrible struggle to swim to the lifeboat—increased the effect of the sedative? Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Despite all this, his immediate effect on other composers was patchy. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The effect of Darwin Bonaparte’s film was immediate and enormous. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Can you imagine the effect of The Last of the Mohicans on a girl like me? Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

In effect, we have redefined the task of science to be the discovery of laws that will enable us to predict events up to the limits set by the uncertainty principle. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, assign a narrator, speaking or acting parts, and along with your instruments and sound effects, you have a complete performance that incorporates music composition and creativity along with language arts and theater. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Thus the radiation by black holes shows that quantum theory allows travel back in time on a microscopic scale and that such time travel can produce observable effects. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, as the potions took effect, Cluny felt himself drifting off to sleep, lulled by the ceaseless chantings and murmurings of Old Sela. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The same effect was suspected in sorghum, sunflower, spiderwort, lambs quarters, pigweed, and smartweed. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“My God—” Dympna whispered something to this effect, but no one heard her. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Another has been the problem of disentangling cause and effect in the rise of food production. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t begin to imagine the effect on him. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

As with other chlorinated hydrocarbons, these long-term effects include severe damage to the liver. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The toothpick incident would have a lasting effect on the school as well. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

If there are conflicts with your original brain tissue...signals that might create almost an antibody effect...one trying to override the other...that’s why we have backups. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Me and Carlos had this stupid joke that whenever we were going to a party, we would set our text message alerts to a crazy sound effect. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“It’s the area under a coliseum. It housed all the set pieces and machinery used to create special effects.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Best of all, it had no major side effects. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I’ve been doing morning weights with Dad for about a year—just these little blue plastic ones that tuck under my parents’ bed, but there’s a cumulative effect. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Devon shook his head when he saw me standing in the lunch line yesterday, fingering an imaginary fret, making the appropriate sound effects. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He reiterated his insistence that in Chicago “simplicity and reserve will be practiced and petty effects and frippery avoided.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

In the next few months and years, the Reichstag would add dozens of additional laws restricting every aspect of the lives of German Jews, until, in effect, simply being Jewish was outlawed. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“If we mess with those condos”—and she pauses here for effect—“they’ll beat us till we bleed.” Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

In any case, the compliment had its desired effect. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

A figure in scandal is like a heavy metal, the closer and longer you stay near, the more lasting the effects. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mother’s shyness and ladylike demeanor had a quieting effect on him, and he was displaying his most genteel behavior. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

In other words, it’s time to be calm and let the Jovian- Plutonian gravitational effect take over. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The sky shimmered an even tiger yellow she had not known to fall in the range of atmospheric effects; she beheld it with a wonder much like that with which, recently, she considered her life. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tarasenkov slid a hot-water bottle into the bed, but it had no effect: he was shivering. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Hell, my presence here has a positively elevating effect compared to you mangy coyotes,” Dad would yell back. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

People in Egypt, Yemen, Bahrain, and Libya, by pushing for democracy, are arguing, in effect, for the right to argue. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

The apparent recession of the galaxies, with the red shift interpreted through the Doppler effect, is not the only evidence for the Big Bang. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Modes also may imply or suggest specific moods or they may be meant to have particular effects on the character of the listener. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Regiomontanus grasped that an astronomer does not have to travel in order to get two observation points that are, in effect, far apart. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

We will have occasion below to consider the effect these changes had on Eratosthenes’ own philosophy and work. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

There was a popular saying to the effect that England is a paradise for women, a prison for servants, and a hell for horses. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

As in eastern Canada, one of the most serious effects of spraying was the severe reduction of food organisms. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

What are some effects of leaving Native people completely out of the story? An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Wherever we went, someone came up and asked my opinions on everything from the effects of the new tax to the latest archaeological discoveries in Finland. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

He relished every berry and showed no ill effects. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only way to clock the speed of a galaxy is by using the Doppler effect—the same principle used in state troopers’ radar guns. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

I was frightened, because I had, in effect, been summoned into a royal presence. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

This whole brain thing is really having an effect on me. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chapter 2 prepares us for exploring effects of continental environments on history over the past 13,000 years, by briefly examining effects of island environments on history over smaller time scales and areas. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Having done this, I noticed all the more the effect of the pale light coming into the room and the way it lit up the edges of my father's craggy, lined, still awesome features. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

These comparisons suggest that geographic connectedness has exerted both positive and negative effects on the evolution of technology. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

But if this was not of sufficient help, then a whole new game plan went into effect, and the command module and the lunar module switched roles. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a perfect world, an economist could run a controlled experiment just as a physicist or a biologist does: setting up two samples, randomly manipulating one of them, and measuring the effect. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Indeed, the wealth of Egypt had political effects that long outlasted the Hellenistic epoch. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

I am sure that none of you would want to rest content with the superficial kind of social analysis that deals merely with effects and does not grapple with underlying causes. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

That’s because of the effect of statistically frequent word sequences: the pair sex with attracts the phrase on the right; the pair on drugs attracts the phrase on the left. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

The effect produced a sound not unlike that of a tire releasing air. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Though not a true holiday, it had the same effect: I felt rejuvenated and ready to take up the fight once more. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though Ariana had been in poor health for a long time, the blow, coming so soon after the loss of their mother, had a profound effect on both of her brothers. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Once he had conceived his visual pun, he could never be sure that it would really work unless he put it into effect. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

My brain was still thrumming from the effects of the White Noise, but my weak heart made the choice easy for me. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Singer was now dealing with another customer—leaning forward and draping a scarf around the woman’s neck and then cooing over the effect it added to the top the woman was wearing. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Information is so powerful that the assumption of information, even if the information does not actually exist, can have a sobering effect. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

In 2001, he presented his findings at an annual meeting of the Psy- chonomic Society; it was the very first study to show the effects of talking on a cell phone. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“You take the Zoloft with food, once a day. We’ll start you on fifty milligrams. The pills make you feel dizzy, but that’s the only side effect, except for sexual side effects.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Malcolm knew that look and was interested to see its effect on someone else. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

In her mind she went over the deadly retorts she knew and gave them all up in helplessness, feeling they would have no effect. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The requirements of the American Revolution, in effect, cut both ways at once. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

But nothing he did could weaken its effect. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I think I've actually had more effect on the world since I retired. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was something to the effect that, in the Underworld, a great ox costs only a penny, but I knew what he meant and in spite of myself I laughed. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

This effect surely contributes a non-genetic component to the superior average mental function displayed by New Guineans. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

She saw herself shining back at her, very smart, very interesting, her hat on straight, her coat nicely pressed and her new gloves just completing the whole effect. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

I must have been rather ill, for I remember some of the effects of high fever, and the physician stayed with me one night or perhaps more. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

For all my obsessing over the consequences of that night, I had misunderstood the vital truth: that its not affecting me, that was its effect. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Whenever he got moody, Nico had that effect on the dead, kind of like Hazel’s curse. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

These clouds were moving as the result of pure chance, the effect of utterly, random events at the level of atoms and molecules; their shadows speeding over the grassland had no meaning at all. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

"The machine will produce the results of a prefrontal lobotomy without the negative effects of the knife," the voice said. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The colors are in the Dutch palette, the overall effect dark and muddy. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

There was a flashing error message, and he tapped it repeatedly to no effect. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

But in matters of vital importance—meaning, in effect, war and police espionage— the empirical approach is still encouraged, or at least tolerated. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

A single CFC molecule is about ten thousand times more efficient at exacerbating greenhouse effects than a molecule of carbon dioxide–and carbon dioxide is of course no slouch itself as a greenhouse gas. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The adulation seems to have an intoxicating effect on the usually grounded Wayne, sending him on an uncharacteristic flight of rhetorical fancy. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Nostalgia is a side effect of cancer,” I told him. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

It was so much worse than if it had been a physical sickness, for which a cause might be known, medicine given, a cure effected. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

What really happens during the very early or late stages of the universe, when gravitational fields are so strong that quantum effects cannot be ignored? A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She is forced to imagine an effect without a cause, which is as hard to visualize as Lewis Carroll’s grin without a cat. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

It served a double purpose, to shield their eyes from the sun and create a camouflage effect. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

He was fourteen and he was still feeling the physical and psychological effects of a football injury two years earlier. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since temperature is simply a measure of the average energy—or speed—of the particles, this cooling of the universe would have a major effect on the matter in it. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The white batting is fluffed out, exposed, the whole effect of him vapid and dislodged. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aunt Florentine patted on her thigh for effect. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, this had the effect of making the bridge into a bottleneck where the road narrowed back to two lanes. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Hearing her fear verbalized by Maddie, that her friendship with James was over for good, had the unexpected effect of making Emily realize how silly it sounded. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The unintentional side effects of wind or wave or current. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

This was in effect an experiment, and it was a crucial experiment: it straightforwardly refuted the two spheres theory. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

In such cases, they do not simply produce copies in the accepted sense of the word, since they do not try to achieve the effect of a duplicate. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He likes putting sound effects into comedies, the sillier the better, and he reacts to them like a delighted little boy. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Now Kino instinctively knew his own dramatic effects. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m investigating acute angles and their effect on impact. Mr. Neely said I could use it for my scientific process project.” The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

For one thing, I am sick, my body fighting the effects of the fruit and the poisons I am forcing down. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Well, see, in the event—however unlikely—that your vaccine does not have the desired effect, and Othello there turns, I was wondering what your contingency plan is. Have you taken the vaccine yourself?” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

He could imagine the effect of each blow that was aimed at him, and this weakened his defence. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, if you ain’t noticed, she’s colored,” said Rosaleen, and I could tell it was having an effect on her by the way she kept gazing at it with her mouth parted. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stood back a bit, to watch the effect. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

In 1965 no one knew how bad these effects might be, after two weeks in space, and it was Frank and Jim’s job to find out. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some people had switched off all their lights for effect, or strung rubber bats in their windows. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Ring for that compress, would you? I’ll be in my study, resting. With any luck I’ll be up and about later, after the lozenge takes effect.” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

I ask him what would give him that impression and he replies to the effect that it is not like me to mess up and besides which I have seemed a trifle distracted. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

Nicks singing voice has this supernatural effect on freshman girls. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

The effect of his words was immediate and...absolutely counterintuitive. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He might have looked comical, but he did not; the effect was frightening, and Harry could not blame Ogden for backing away several more paces before he spoke. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

He knew enough about the strange power of unconscious influence to feel that it would make a difference, but he thought the effect would be slight. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

One effect of these laws was an increase in the prison population, over the next twenty-five years, of 560 percent. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Roger-dodger. Repeat: one Mama, one fries, one small beer. Fire for effect. Stand by.” The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kalugin's appearance had an electrifying effect on the crowd and on the larger democracy movement inside Russia. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“If I write the word ‘Terrific’ with sticky thread,” she thought, “every bug that comes along will get stuck in it and spoil the effect.” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

In a paper titled “The Nature and Nurture of Economic Outcomes,” the economist Bruce Sacerdote addressed the nature- nurture debate by taking a long-term quantitative look at the effects of parenting. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Toward the end they came over to strafe the woods, but to no effect. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

In effect, the leadership of the revolutionary generation lacked a vocabulary adequate to describe the politics they were inventing. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

This campaign had a great effect on me. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know this because I can smell their microwave popcorn, andI can hear the tire-screeching noises and instrumental sound effects and gunfire. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Although the metal might have interfered with his apparatus, Bell decided that the effect wasn't enough to explain the results from the day before. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Because it clearly had a huge effect on their performance. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

I aim one of my last two arrows at Cato's head, knowing it'll have no effect on his trunk or limbs, which I can now see are clothed in a skintight, flesh-colored mesh. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

In his madrigals, Monteverdi dips in and out of all kinds of chords, many of them startlingly unrelated, in order to create ear-catching effects. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The word "sensuous" had the effect of further disquieting Tom but before he could invent a protest the coupé came to a stop and Daisy signalled us to draw up alongside. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Imagine, if you will, the catastrophic effects of burping while digesting a mouthful of clay. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

They did the reading without music and sound effects. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Plutarch’s brimming with satisfaction as he shows me the before/after effects of the first couple of propos. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Might this cooling increase the size of the polar ice cap, which, because it is bright, will reflect still more sunlight from the Earth, further cooling the planet, driving a runaway albedo' effect? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a Lawrence of Arabia deli called Tray Sheik, I was the one who thought the place should have a bazaar effect, and I found the replicas of cobras lying on fake Hollywood boulders. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Was there ever a Coup de Theatre,” Adams complained, “that had so great an effect as Jefferson’s Penmanship of the Declaration of Independence.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

I stood there on the moonlit walk, trying to think ahead to its effects, imagining the satisfaction of those who envied my success, the shame and disappointment of my parents. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The serum will go into effect in sixty seconds. This simulation is different from the aptitude test,” he says. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Freak is tugging at my leg and he goes, "Option Two is now in effect." Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

He knew there was too little time to let nature alone produce such effects. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

For it purported to create a consolidated federal government with powers sufficient to coerce obedience to national laws—in effect, to discipline a truly continental union—while remaining true to the republican principles of 1776. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

I helped choose the clothes, helped make him this way, and yet the effect is not lost on me. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Well, if you know about the time-stop, you must also know that you are completely cut off from the outside world. You are, in effect, powerless.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Although discussions of mutations usually refer to those in the germ cells, which may then make their effect felt in future generations, there may also be mutations in the body cells. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

It is notorious for striking quickly and with terrible effect at the nervous system, sending the victims into convulsions. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

If a picture is Instagram worthy, I slap on the Moon filter for that classic black-and-white effect. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The effect on Hazel and Blackberry was overwhelming. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was rich and popular, which insulated him from the effects of most humiliation. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“I have all my life been considering distant effects and always sacrificing immediate success and applause to that of the future,” he wrote. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The insidious effect of bans was that at a certain point one began to think that the oppressor was not without but within. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He appears to be lost in thought and whatever has got his brain cells occupied is having a strange effect on his facial muscles. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

He made a comment in English, not caring that the interpreter could hear and understand it—something to the effect that he was fed up “with these Russian pigs.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

All these actions, in effect, made Indigenous people homeless in their own homelands. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

As expected, the bacterial remnants had no effect on the mice: they were dead and unable to cause an infection. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Because of those undoubted effects of childhood environment and learned knowledge on IQ test results, the psychologists’ efforts to date have not succeeded in convincingly establishing the postulated genetic deficiency in IQs of nonwhite peoples. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The rum lost its effect on Adina, and something more intoxicating took over. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

I beheld Richard Parker from the angle that showed him off to greatest effect: from the back, half­ raised, with his head turned. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I watched Star Trek because you are always spouting off about it. The special effects are not that special. Kind of pathetic, actually. Like a first-grade puppet show.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Though the pass system was still in effect, one did not need a special permit to enter a freehold township as was the case with municipal locations. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

An example of how quantum theory can allow negative energy densities is provided by what is called the Casimir effect. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

This has the effect of turning girls into mere objects, while boys are seen by girls as whole people—” And then Lara stood up, and in her delicate, innocent accent, cut Dr. William Morse off. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Shakespeare frequently uses violations of decorum for comic effect, as witness Bottom’s muddled attempts at eloquence, Pistol’s braggadocio, and Polonius’s foolish high-sounding waffle. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

The effect of this was that the land seemed to go on forever. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

At least three landed on the creature, but it did not have any effect. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

There is then no further energy production, so the end effect is very similar to uncoupling. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

He turns me toward a mirror so that I can take in the entire effect. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The physiological effect of DDD is probably unique among insecticides, for it destroys part of the adrenal gland — the cells of the outer layer known as the adrenal cortex, which secretes the hormone cortin. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Hera used hers against him with terrible effect and in the end he was killed by magic, but nothing that lived in the air, sea, or on land ever defeated him. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

As yet insufficient time has elapsed to reveal the full effect of the new chlorinated hydrocarbon insecticides and of the modern herbicides. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Man-made landmarks like Mesopotamian ziggurats or flat-sided Egyptian pyramids dominated their landscapes, creating a visual effect as stunning as the amount of effort required to build them. The Annotated Mona Lisa 1992-06-01T00:00:00Z

One of the most significant facts about the chlorinated hydrocarbon insecticides is their effect on the liver. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Copernicus achieved the same effect by different means. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The entomologist, whose specialty is insects, is not so qualified by training, and is not psychologically disposed to look for undesirable side effects of his control program. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

When they were finished, all the students were given a short questionnaire, asking them questions about the quality of the songs and the effect of the shaking. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought I could make out some people entering and others leaving, some of them staggering from the effects of the wine, some of them still yawning from yesterday’s boozing. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

June told me about the movies in art class today, though, complete with creepy sound effects. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

But a maid’s uniform has the opposite effect. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

In any case, all of these trends are long-term changes that one would expect to have gradual effects. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fireworks were by Gandalf: they were not only brought by him, but designed and made by him; and the special effects, set pieces, and flights of rockets were let off by him. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

These injuries to the genetic material are of a kind that may lead to disease in the individual exposed or they may make their effects felt in future generations. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Yes! How long do the effects of your Ingestible Knowledge capsules last?” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

It had the effect of a referee’s whistle, separating the combatants from their clinch. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

But the beet-sugar breakthrough did have one important effect in another part of Europe: the Ukraine of Marc’s family. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

The story was clever enough to have had by itself, in all probability, the desired effect; but Poseidon, the most bitter of all the gods against Troy, contrived an addition which made the issue certain. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the flights got longer, until finally Cooper stayed up nearly a day and a half, with no apparent ill effects. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

While we live our own individual lives, what has gone before us, our history, always has some effect on us. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

A word which, for several seconds, has no effect whatsoever on Ashima. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

David says the special effects are supposed to be better than the last one. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

What he was proposing, in effect, was a stratum of artificial bedrock that would also serve as the floor of the basement. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The effect was so flattering that Celia could not bear to give it up, and instead kept it for normal wear. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

During this time rockets loaded with atomic bombs can be assembled at all the strategic spots; finally they will all be fired simultaneously, with effects so devastating as to make retaliation impossible. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“They are exactly opposite in effect. Atropine speeds the nervous system, rapid heartbeat and so forth. Amatoxins slow it down.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I arrange a freaky smile on my face, crossing my eyes to add to the effect. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

In the case of Blake Grunwald's catchers' gear, the scent produced a counteracting effect to how fertile I felt after glancing into the pastel green bathroom across the hall. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

My father thus replied to the effect that while he was most grateful that his feelings had been taken into account, Mr Silvers could be assured that service would be provided to the usual standards. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

They did, but it had no effect on the German charge. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was aiming for maximum emotional effect, maximum narrative clarity, maximum impact, even shock, and wasn’t going to obey anyone’s rules about what he could or could not do. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Without enforcement power, however, the council had little effect on job opportunities for blacks. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

There have been some hints of an enhanced surface temperature due to an atmospheric greenhouse effect. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

In effect, I had witnessed a crucial event in the emergence of aids, the transformation of a thread of dirt into a ribbon of tar. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The effect was to strip German Jews of their citizenship and all associated rights beginning in January of 1936. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Perhaps I could make an effect through the sheer contrast between my approach and theirs. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is how the effect of that switch—and, eventually, of every switch—becomes manifest. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

But Holmes found that Cowie’s investigation had a secondary, more damaging effect. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The object itself no longer survives; we last hear of it in 1494, when it is listed among the effects of Lorenzo the Magnificent, the Medici ruler of Florence, on his death. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The effect of all this was to make Andrew very much disliked in the neighbourhood. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

Not many people travel there these days, but once this was one of the most popular attractions in London–in effect, as Richard Fortey has noted, the world’s first theme park. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Of course the sagging mattress analogy can take us only so far because it doesn’t incorporate the effect of time. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

I watch for Cordelia, and when Prospero’s attendants come on, with music and jittery lighting effects, I peer hard, trying to see which one she is, behind the disguise of costume. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

She dosed the boys regularly and gently to purge the putrid bile from their bodies, but it seemed to have little effect. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

These mind games were having an obvious effect on Holly, destroying her from the inside out. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

The side effects —crippling headaches, dizziness, seizures, vomiting—lasted until the body naturally refilled the skull with spinal fluid, which usually took two to three months. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Creating a sound carpet entails taking a story and adding sound effects, leitmotifs, instruments, vocal sounds, body percussion, and actors and/or a narrator, in order to bring literature to life. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Mr. Benedict had wondered how the hidden messages could be so simple and yet have such profound effects. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

My mother not being an islander and the islanders not being acquainted with pianos, no one realized at the beginning the effect of damp salt air on the instrument. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It has stiffened with the effects of its own witchery. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

When one is concerned with the mysterious and wonderful functioning of the human body, cause and effect are seldom simple and easily demonstrated relationships. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Do you know any other effect of rhetoric over and above that of producing persuasion?” he asks. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

The Guerrilla Shrew regiment had chosen to sleep off the effects of the party outside in the sun. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I was a painfully shy, awkward kid, with low self-esteem and almost no social skills—a side effect of spending most of my childhood inside the OASIS. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I know only that it had a strange effect on me: it no longer filled me with doubt and distress, loneliness, shame. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

With his hayseed grammar, denim shirt and lifetime-member NRA cap, Dad would have always been out of place at Harvard, but his scarring intensified the effect. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Scientists who studied psychology and the effects of radio were interested in the public’s reaction to the broadcast, too. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Of course most of the side effects of those drugs are immediate, making you feel within an hour that you’re something other than human. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Two of the mass-spraying programs recently carried out have had precisely this effect. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

They are, in effect, still trapped in a history which they do not understand; and until they understand it, they cannot be released from it. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

The timing of the deluge had been so perfect, I could almost believe it was some grand theatrical effect produced by the company for our amazement. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Could quantum me- chanics have an equally dramatic effect on the big bang and big crunch singularities? A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wanted the sound effects to be natural so the colonel in the next stall would suspect nothing. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nor was the effect of horses due only to the terror that they inspired in soldiers fighting against them for the first time. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

And although it is hazardous to assume any of this had formative effects on his character, it is equally an exaggeration to say that Eratosthenes grew up breathing an atmosphere of pure royalist docility. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

The Scaling Revolution had the effect of forcing even those who continued to believe in a divine architect to recognize the coherence of this view. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He could hear Cedric yelling “Stupefy!” too, but his spell had no more effect than Harry’s — Harry raised his wand as the spider opened its pincers once more and shouted “Expelliarmus!” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

For effect, Bernabe took his time slouching out of the cab. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The one-armed smith had left few personal effects: the cup, six pennies and a copper star, a niello brooch with a broken clasp, a musty brocade doublet that bore the stag of Storm’s End. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Since only two teams could go to the playoffs, the district’s tiebreaker rule went into effect: a coin toss. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

At Odessa High the effects of the demographic shift were even more pronounced. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the effect is bad enough even so. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

For full effect, it needs reading aloud by several people at once, moving the lips in synchrony. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Out on the Yard, I could see these traditions in effect. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

I only needed to sur­vive to put it into effect. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

It’s the brain that combines the two pictures together into one image and creates the stereoptical effect: the depth that the world seems to have for us. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

In profile she resembles a cute Punchinello, her cheeks expressive, painted, and the nose carved for comic effect. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Moreover, most galaxies are found in clusters, and we can similarly infer the presence of yet more dark matter in between the galaxies in these clusters by its effect on the motion of the galaxies. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Martial law was in effect in the whole country. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

To deconvolute the effects of heredity and environment, Siemens suggested comparing fraternal twins to identical twins. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The aura of science and medical research was meticulously maintained, often dramatized to achieve an even greater effect on public imagination. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

It didn’t seem possible that something so simple could’ve had such a profound effect on my cardiovascular system, but my heart never slowed its pace. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Dr. Cooke says that it will take several weeks to feel the full effect. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

What’s more, the “therapeutic effect,” as they call it, builds up over time. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

The most obvious explanation of the red shift was in terms of the Doppler effect: the galaxies were receding from us; the more distant the galaxy the greater its speed of recession. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once this braid was done, Pond would have nothing to diminish the effects of the radiation poisoning. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Hazel moved to the edge of the sidewalk and concentrated on the odd effects of her wraith-poisoned heart. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Others, seeing a Specter making for them, so strange and blank and greedy, raised their guns and fired, but of course with no effect. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The combined effect of race-based peremptory strikes and the automatic exclusion of people with felonies from juries has put black defendants in a familiar place—in a courtroom in shackles, facing an all-white jury. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I cannot run away on the muscular effects of adrenaline, but I could taste fear in the back of my throat and feel its despairing weight in my slack limbs. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

People have not exaggerated the effects of the tracker jacker stings. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“I cannot agree with you. It appears to me a most perfect resemblance in every feature. I never saw such a likeness in my life. We must allow for the effect of shade, you know.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

So he takes that as the okay to reenact the Battle of Gettysburg on his plate, complete with sound effects of gunfire and muted cries of “Charge!” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

And it is also at this point that he would have made an unfortunate discovery: looking at his image in a mirror will have had the effect of halving its height. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Imagine the effect on these places and people from a second Asia. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The whole population of the neighborhood turned out for a long, trailing funeral which went on for hours and was in effect an indignation meeting. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

In typical cases, there are no official policies authorizing race discrimination in jury selection still lurking around, arguably in effect. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He looked about seventeen and wore well-tailored clothes stained with the effects of the fever. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was almost as if gravity had less of an effect in the darkness. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

It sort of buckles away from the concrete cellar walls, a regular ripple effect, but do I complain about the crummy paneling, or the rug that smells like low tide? Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

The termites had a startling effect on the piano. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Doctors and nurses administered first aid for cuts and bruises and the effects of tear gas as marchers lay moaning and weeping on couches, chairs and the floor. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since the universe would already be expanding just as in the hot big bang model, the repulsive effect of this cosmological constant would therefore have made the universe expand at an ever-increasing rate. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Less than a month before my retirement went into effect, the unthinkable happened. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

No one in the world had the power to remove the dead man’s disorganized effects from Yossarian’s tent. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

A slight cushioning effect in the area of his stomach told him that the Invisibility Cloak was also there, stuffed out of sight. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

At home the effects were no less disturbing. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He seems to sense his words haven’t had the desired effect. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beck scowled at Vogel, but with their reflective visors down, the effect was lost. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I heard long, angrily whispered conversations between my mother and grandmother to the effect that “that woman ought to be killed for breaking up a home.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had absolutely no effect; one of the pixies seized his wand and threw it out of the window, too. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

These new layered sound effects, built on plainsong tunes, were edging very close to what today we would call ‘harmony’ - that is, the existence and exploitation of simultaneous clusters of notes. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The combined effect is a matter that warrants the most serious concern. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Hmm. Perhaps it was a mouse, after all, or the echo of harbor traffic. Pipes do have strange acoustic effects.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

He received a letter dated April 7, 2005, from the Union Bank of Switzerland to the effect that the institution was closing his account. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

It inflated–in effect ran away with itself, doubling in size every 10-34 seconds. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Lon Teter arrived in the final month to serve as, in effect, production foreman—getting an immense and complicated body of work checked, formatted, and into the paper on time. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“And he’s Muslim,” I add for full effect. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

I then uttered the phrase, “There’s a white man outside,” which to small black children had the same effect as “There’s a bogeyman outside,” but still he would not stop. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eventually that stopped, and then the woman did a curious thing: she took a pair of scissors and trimmed the girl’s hair, holding her sleeping head this way and that to see the best effect. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Light doesn’t go in a straight line, but in a curved path around stars—an effect that the British astronomer Sir Arthur Eddington went on an expedition in 1919 to observe. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

This, it seems to me, is to mistake effect for cause, to get the whole story of the new science upside down and back to front. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

There is nevertheless a nagging suspicion among some astronomers that all may not be right with the deduction, from the red shifts of galaxies via the Doppler effect, that the universe is expanding. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It became symbolic of the cold and dehumanizing effects of urban life. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Explore, map the land, the drying effects of climate change. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

We were a typical American family—and still are, though the events related in my story have, of course, had their effect on our lives. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

“In effect, I have discovered the fountain of youth!” The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

“We’re going to have to search through your private effects,” the small FBI man explained. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Thus recent American and Soviet missions to Venus seem to have provided verification that the greenhouse effect is indeed the reason for the high surface temperature. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I took a swig out of the bottle for effect, but I knew what she meant. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Then there are what I call mixed doubles: pairs of words and phrases that are routinely confused, like affect and effect. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tom looked at his father with veiled eyes, trying to read the effect of Olive’s letter. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The problem was that most of Kennedy’s efforts weren’t producing the desired effect. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Ruta Skadi shot an arrow into the heart of it, with no effect at all. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once again, he thought that tiny actions brought about cumulative effects and great change. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The children couldn’t see it, but Tialys and Salmakia, flying above, watched the little pale figures all moving with an effect that looked like the migration of immense flocks of birds or herds of reindeer. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

This was a truly thrilling scene, though some persons might have thought that the sudden tumbling down of a quantity of long red hair rather marred the effect of the villain’s death. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Branwell smiled and said something to the effect that The Ancestors did a lot of eating out. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

If such things had been liable to have any effect on him, he would not have been head of the Owslafa. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

And it is clear that white Americans are not simply unwilling to effect these changes; they are, in the main, so slothful have they become, unable even to envision them. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

I cannot explain how exactly it is done, but it had its intended effect. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Applied to seeds, either by soaking or in a coating combined with carbon, they extend their effects into the following plant generation and produce seedlings poisonous to aphids and other sucking insects. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Media coverage of all the innocent people wrongly convicted had an effect on the death-sentencing rate in America, which began to decline in 1999. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Possible? Sure. I mean, today it would be easy, with digital effects, but back then, in the sixties? It would have been staging.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

As each member of the family appears at the breakfast table, the encounter is, in effect, a house-call. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In seconds your arms and legs are secured in padded restraints, and you feel the shot begin to take effect. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

The effect was disconcerting, dizzying; her too-tight beaded slippers seemed to float in midair. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The sound of a shot and the splash of a duck had had the same effect on the Labrador as a trumpet call to an old war horse, and drew him as irresistibly. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stepped into a slanting square of light coming through one of the windows, and though she felt its warmth on her face, it had no effect on the ice all around her. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Azoth distilled from my spirit had no effect on it at all. So I ask you again, Lazlo Strange...who are you?” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He’d always had that effect on me, filling me with dizzying exhilaration one moment, then sending me into a nervous, stuttering panic the next. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

She wears a dark coat that is too large for her, but she carries herself in such a way that it seems to hang like a cloak and the effect is rather elegant. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Or maybe it’s an effect of the stark white light, illuminating just her face. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stack collapses weren’t that uncommon, and if the scaffold supports buckled at the wrong angle, the domino effect could bring down four or five of the neighboring stacks too. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Arguing with her always had a draining effect on me. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

When I turned the computer back on, the screen flashed to black and a crude graphic of a wizard appeared, accompanied by some ominous sound effects. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

By 1931 the effects of the Depression had caused crew programs across the country to go out of existence or to cut back drastically on the purchase of equipment. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The theory then turns an observed rough correlation in time into a postulated chain of cause and effect. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Human lives are priceless in many ways, but in order to reach reasonable compromises, we must, in effect, place a finite economic value on them. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

A hotter surface would vaporize still more carbonates into CO,, and there would be the possibility of a runaway greenhouse effect to very high temperatures. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

In such strong fields the effects of quantum mechanics should be important. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The resulting effect was striking: a bright streak ten inches long, glowing lavender from its interaction with nitrogen ions in the atmosphere. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

He said, “Sometimes, my friend, the scorpion sting has a curious effect. There will be apparent improvement, and then without warning—pouf!” The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Treasury Department uses a computer model to examine the effects of tax cuts on various income groups but does not look in detail fine enough to differentiate among those within the top 1 percent. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The voice, or whatever effect of wind and waves it was, faded. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Recent events have had little effect on Plutarch’s mood. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

He says to them, in effect, You can do nothing to me because I do not care what you do. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stopped there to enjoy the effect of these words. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The syllables of this illustrious name—one which the Corcorans invoked with very nearly as much respect as that of God Almighty—had when uttered aloud a miraculous effect of healing on Mr. Corcoran. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

After the initial side effects wore off and they had stopped cursing my name, I told them what I had discovered the night before. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

He knew, in a detached way, that her terror should have had some effect on him, but a numbness was creeping over him. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The effects last for three days, and the process can be repeated indefinitely. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

If just one of them moved, I thought, the domino effect could engulf the three of us in an asphyxiating mass of literature. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

“The poison doesn’t take effect for at least twelve hours,” he said. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Usually the mental effect for him was of speaking into a telephone and hearing his own voice in the receiver. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

The effect of creating those values in an academic setting had been well documented. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

So, destination gift shop was in full effect. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

In his era, even simple lacerations often left diabetics with savage infections that necessitated limb and digit amputations, a consequence of the disease’s ravaging effect on circulation and immunity. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ve been lucky so far, but it’s getting worse. It’s not medical... not really. Nico says it’s a side effect from my past, from where he found me.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

But finally, with a shrug and a worried “Ai, Chihuahua,” he climbed behind the wheel and effected another U-tum. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She went on to write a PhD dissertation on the effect of formal rhetoric on Shakespeare’s language, and remained an evangelist for the use of the trivium in education. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Floodlights lit up much of the work site, and in the immense surrounding darkness of the high desert the effect was otherworldly. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“The effect,” he wrote, “will be to induce people more and more to bring their food with them, and more and more to scatter papers and offal on the ground.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I haven’t seen a blue sky in a longtime, so when it spreads out above me, I feel the breath catch in my lungs and the effect is dizzying. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

They weren’t yet visible, but the lieutenant had passed the word down through a whisper that was relayed like a domino effect: “Fire on my command.” A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

As the physicist and writer James Trefil has put it, "It would be hard to believe that the continuous movement of tectonic plates has no effect on the development of life on earth." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

One of the main effects of war, after all, is that people are discouraged from being characters. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I wouldn’t say waiting for us. Anyway, I have to read about the effects of smallpox on indigenous populations tonight, so I can’t really solve The Case of the Fugitive Billionaire.” Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

The eye makeup, with my usual winged corners, was dramatic enough, and my sparkly leo would complete the effect. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I become fascinated with the effects of glass, and of other light-reflecting surfaces. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

One morning, soon after sanctions went into effect, we woke up to the sound of sirens on the road. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The new Middle groups in effect proclaimed their tyranny beforehand. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

If this is true, it may explain why some studies on men subjected to continuous occupational exposure find little evidence of toxic effects. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Like the medicine's having no effect at all. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Someone should write an erudite essay on the moral, physical, and esthetic effect of the Model T Ford on the American nation. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What is the effect on the people? We don’t know.” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Those five words—“a girl with red hair”—created such an opposite effect in him. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Had we not had the benefit of a greenhouse effect, the Earth might well have frozen over permanently, and life might never have gotten a toehold. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

This paper—which explained the photoelectric effect, brought quantum mechanics into the mainstream. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

She put her hand out, touched his arm; she felt guilty, seeing the effect it had on him, the change. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

He wore a frown behind his cigar, as though the stunning lighting effects had been “created” by a stage director whose taste he considered more or less suspect. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

“I’m really”—I paused for comic effect—“getting up there.” Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

In less than an hour if taken orally, but its effects wear off just a few hours later. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

In effect, if Adams had a different story to tell, if he saw a different pattern in the historical swirl they had both lived through, he should write out his account and let posterity judge. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Their knowledge of the deadly effects of extreme altitude was scant, and their equipment was pathetically inadequate by modern standards. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

She spent a great part of her time with the mechanics of her church, which did not leave her time for either its background or its effects. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I hear the new one at the Alhambra is first-rate. There’s a love scene on a bearskin rug; they say it’s marvellous. Every hair of the bear reproduced. The most amazing tactual effects.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

But this is, at least in part, a confusion of cause and effect. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

To some, the government’s crackdown did not seem imminent so they did not take the precautions necessary to lessen its effect. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She changed schools, changed address—changed worlds, in effect—and moved into an octagonal bedroom downstairs from the Justices’ two-year-old son. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Dozens of spacecraft swooped and buzzed around him, peppering his mech with rocket fire, but their attacks also seemed to have little effect. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The global temperature of the Earth would be below the freezing point of water if not for the greenhouse effect. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ah, yes. Fancy the effect upon his melodies, laboring with his muse there so much closer both to Hell and the ruddy forge of Vulcan.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

He holds his hand up for me to be quiet and says, “Just”—he waits, for effect—“shut up and listen.” I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

The effect was that of stained-glass windows in sunlight. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Without that quality, his other virtues would not have sufficed to attain the same effect. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

The giants’ special effects machines had gone into overtime, laying planks across ruined support beams so the arena had a proper floor again. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He asked himself how his fear related to what happened in the jungle to an animal scared by a predator: “are not these effects of violent running away,” he scribbled. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

To try to lessen these effects, the chart office would often “pencil in” a resource officer to the post of a senior officer who was sick or on vacation. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But in 1905, Einstein showed that the particle theory of light could explain the photoelectric effect, the ejection of electrons from a metal upon exposure to a beam of light. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am recalling that at around that same time is when he also starts in reading me Damon Runyon stories every night at bedtime and this has a lasting effect on me. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

That social structure is ideal for domestication, because humans in effect take over the dominance hierarchy. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

In effect, the agenda concerned the Super’s fate. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The drafting and editing of the Farewell Address in effect became a metaphor for the kind of collective effort Washington was urging on the American people as a whole. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

It had the effect of making the aged nigromant angrier than before. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

But those first few weeks at the quarry had the opposite effect on us. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her heartbeat only settled after the hasira leaf’s power took effect and the lurid yellow glow in his eyes slightly dimmed. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Ashamed, now that the effects of the soma had worn off, of the weakness he had displayed that morning in the hotel, he went out of his way to show himself strong and unorthodox. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

But in a way, I think my mother’s and Granny’s storytelling had had the same effect upon me when a child, as the reading of books: my mind was stimulated, my creativity encouraged. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He used to stand for fourteen or sixteen hours and not notice any effects at all. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The project neatly combined work each had been doing previously—Lawrence’s research under Swann into the photoelectric effect in gas vapor and Beams’s investigation of short-lived physical phenomena. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Disillusionment Charms should be performed daily, as their effects are apt to wear off. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Indeed. How the Sender’s messages accomplish such profound effects, what the particulars of his plan are—anything you uncover may help us find a way to defeat him.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

It’s nearly time to put the next part of the plan into effect. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

To do so you have, in effect, to move from monocular vision to binocular vision. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Waldseemüller’s world map of 1507, the first to include the name ‘America’, the first to show the New World as, in effect, a new continent, and the first to show antipodes. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The effect was that he displayed a quarter in his hand, raised it to his mouth, blew on it, and lowered it again, displaying the same quarter all the while. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

“How do we know? Maybe it has a bad effect on a child to grow up with... someone like him in the house.” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

This had exactly the effect that Hazel intended. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each put on one nice light glove, and carried one soiled one, and all pronounced the effect “quite easy and fine”. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

He believed that the ANC was the means to effect change in South Africa, the repository of black hopes and aspirations. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I wonder if it only likes iron because it’s made of iron,” she mused, touching her silver ring to it with no effect. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The effect of the overlarge eye against his otherwise handsome face is both grotesque and amusing. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

In a second that kick of his wings had lost its effect, and the ground was welling up. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two seasons later, large branches on these trees had died, others were without leaves, and the deformed, weeping effect of whole trees persisted. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Since each of the three superstates is unconquerable, each is in effect a separate universe within which almost any perversion of thought can be safely practiced. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I had now neglected my promise for some time, and I feared the effects of the dæmon’s disappointment. Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z

The chief saw the effect of his words and stood abruptly. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

While the positive effects of the wall coming down were immediately apparent, the cause of the wall’s fall was not so clear. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

“It is difficult to discern the effect of such things, you know. Your perspective is from the inside, after all. The smallest charms can be the most effective.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The study of human chromosomes is in its infancy, and so it has only recently become possible to study the effect of environmental factors upon them. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Dizziness is a side effect of the serum. You may want to rest this afternoon. And I’m feeling well. Thank you for asking,” he says. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

They used harmony as an additional layer of subtlety and effect, even by using discords to intensify the meaning of texts conveying suffering, loss or anguish. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

But one of the things Dr. Watson and others have begun to understand is that people whose performance suffers less—who are, in effect, better “multitaskers”—see a lower load on their attentional networks. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

He’d lost count of how many times he’d had an iteration of this same dream, and while some of the details changed, the effect was the same. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Even as he spoke I could feel the stimulant effect from the nahlrout fading. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She learned how to control the light and the camera to get the effects she wanted, like a musician learning the intricacies of an instrument. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately for Einstein, the laws of quantum mechanics work incredibly well, and you can’t successfully explain quantum effects with traditional classical physics. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The effects of the depression were bad everywhere, but in the black ghetto they were horrible, Mr. Muhammad told me. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He squatted in front of Hazel and looked round him in silence, to make sure of his effect. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

As explained before, this means that one might as well cut the big bang, and any events before it, out of the theory, because they can have no effect on what we observe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

But as the waves come around the corner, you get this swirlin’ effect. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

The outlines of the law were explicitly borrowed from the American eugenics program—if amplified for effect. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

She had seen the effect of his power on the puppy and its mother, but hadn’t understood. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

On these occasions too, the child wrote with formidable intuition that charity had no effect on such monumental injustice. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said Mr. D had this effect on fruit-bearing plants: they just went crazy when he was around. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Mother sighs, twists her brows to no effect. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The effect would be much the same if the three superstates, instead of fighting one another, should agree to live in perpetual peace, each inviolate within its own boundaries. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Tellingly, his influence had considerably more effect than the efforts of any politician or soldier. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

This represents the kinds of things that must be done after the fact, in efforts to compensate for the incapacitating effects of certain diseases whose course one is unable to do very much about. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The trauma of having found employment had affected his valve negatively, and he was waiting until the warm water in which he wallowed like a pink hippopotamus had a calming effect upon his system. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

In addition to its symbolic effect, the cage cut us off from communication with our lawyers, who were not permitted to enter. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But much of the transformation was also effected as a result of plants’ selecting themselves. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

And yet I am bestowed only with the meager effect of his hard-fought riches, that troubling awe and contempt and piety I still hold for his life. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

For that, Johnson can thank the effects of alcohol, as a now very drunk George Atzerodt continues to raise his glass. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Those feelings below my waist, it turns out, were a side effect of malaria. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

So instead we have made progress by finding partial theories that describe a limited range of happenings and by neglecting other effects or approximating them by certain numbers. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

After marrying Morrison, Tillie grew suspicious of him, especially after Morrison was overheard talking about the effects of the poison strychnine. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I suppose it was then that the beneficent influence of the woman with the pearls went into effect, the one my grandfather and I went to see to thank her for saving my life. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

An investigator wrote in his notes, “This may have been real grief or...for effect.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The effect was one of enormous strength and energy and craft; he was quite big enough to carry the absurd overdecoration; on him it didn’t look preposterous, it looked barbaric and magnificent. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

I realized that my system was so clean that the joint had already taken effect. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

He offered me his unlimited sympathy for, in effect, my recent emotional and financial setbacks. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

“I know. But I thought I’d like to see what the effect would be.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the course of conversation they discovered some mutual friends which had the immediate effect of making them more friendly and less stiff. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

The phenols, as we have seen, have a strong effect on metabolism, causing a potentially fatal rise in temperature; this is brought about by the “racing engine” effect of uncoupling. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

However, their indirect effects, such as small changes in the energy of electron orbits in atoms, can be measured and agree with the theoretical predictions to a remarkable degree of accuracy. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Laughter changes to screams, blood stains pastel stones, real smoke darkens the special effect stuff made for television. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Her speciality was turning out to be the effects of Biosafety Level 4 hot agents, and in the presence of those kinds of agents you need to wear a space suit. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But nothing the anonymous callers said could match the effect of the voices clamoring inside his own head: Betrayer! The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Those who did inquire, during preparations and rehearsals, were told that to reveal the methods would ruin the effect. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

"He's stuck out there. He thinks he's totally alone and that we all gave up on him. What kind of effect does that have on a man's psychology?" The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

That had been one of the worst effects of her betrayal, the way he’d been forced to second-guess himself. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Ban on Experimental Breeding did not come into effect until this century, long after the first recorded sighting of an Acromantula in 1794. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once you got over the brightness of it all, the general effect was quite pleasant. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The only effect of his interference was to make an enemy of Philadelphus. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

“My only fault,” he observed with practiced good humor, watching for the effect of his words, “is that I have no faults.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

As the baby gets more massive, your push has less and less effect. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The smoke must have had the same energizing effect on the water monster, who stood firmly on his legs. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The toothpicks’ most lasting effect, however, turned out to be on Izzy herself. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“You are a side effect,” Van Houten continued, “of an evolutionary process that cares little for individual lives. You are a failed experiment in mutation.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

But the correlations do not tell us precisely how population variables function in a chain of cause and effect whose outcome is a complex society. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

In effect, the prefect was above the law because he was the law, and one prefect was not supposed to report another. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Now that I knew we were safe from the effects of the blast, I began circling so that we could view the results,” said Tibbets. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was moving more vigorously now, a sign that the denner was beginning to take effect. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The argument between Mr. and Mrs. Dalai was still more or less in effect early the next morning, when a barefoot team of workmen came to install the basins. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“The Jovian-Plutonian gravitational effect is life,” I add, even though no one knows what this means. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

And somehow this had always lightened its effect on him—even, on occasion, cheered him right up. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

The effect explains a large fraction of the variance in GNP. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

If the ring were not so close to Saturn, this effect would not be so strong, and the particles could accrete, making small snowballs and eventually growing into satellites. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

If that were indeed the case, Tree-ear had no doubt that Min could use the process to far better effect. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Lawrence’s statement had the curious effect of undermining both the other witnesses, while placing his own credibility at the service of a smear of Oppenheimer. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

And these technological therapies would have to be constructed, she said, so that they don’t invite their own side effects, like, say, overbuilding one neural network. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The cometary impact and fireball would simulate all effects of a one- megaton nuclear burst, including the mushroom cloud, with two exceptions: there would be no gamma radiation or radioactive fallout. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The psychologist Jonathan W. Schooler, who pioneered research on this effect, calls it verbal overshadowing. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Nonetheless, you’ve managed to extract something very meaningful about him from those thin slices of experience, and that impression has a powerful effect on how you experience Tom Hanks’s movies. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

It also appears young children who watch television can experience shorter-term effects. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

She concluded by telling Judge Willmore: “Please send a message to people everywhere that texting and driving are dangerous and the effects can be both heartbreaking and devastating.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

While vague, the intended effect of the Jeffersonian message was to calm his fellow Virginians. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Jesper was tempted to pretend to faint, but he settled for the effect of men toppling to the ground all around him. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

It couldn’t have nearly the same effect, I was sure, but Jacob jumped up willingly enough. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Nhamo was perched on a rock, watching the effect of a fish trap she had made. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The discovery of the Big Bang and the recession of the galaxies came from a commonplace of nature called the Doppler effect. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. Victor Vaughn, acting surgeon general of the army, has witnessed firsthand the effects of the influenza at Camp Devens, a military camp near Boston. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Ma screamed at him, of course, but it lost effect. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Sometimes open leads of water in all directions were wreathed with wisps of frost smoke as the water began to freeze, and Shackleton commented that the effect resembled the smoke from a prairie fire. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Buoyed by the stimulant effects of the nahlrout and feeling very little pain, I made my way to the Archives. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The effect is beautiful and eerie, and the place seems to glow. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Has about the same effect as absinthe if you drink enough of it.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

If placebo effects were this good, they should just make placebos the way to treat depression—maybe that’s what they did; maybe Zoloft was cornstarch. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

The bow guard now had the same effect as the communication stone. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

What he said I could not hear, but it had the effect of producing a panic in the throng.” The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

For the northerners, there was almost no effect. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Or perhaps it was a lingering effect of the dream he had that morning. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Was this all the effect of what had happened at the Ministry? Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Though the bugs swarmed around him, the poison didn’t seem to have any effect on the shadow bird—his black feathers just absorbed it like ink into the page. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The effect was so disconcerting that when he held out one of those enormous hands, she slapped it away. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

She promulgated this philosophy with disastrous effects to two southern belles whom she took under her wing in order to renovate their backward minds. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sloughing of the gut, in which the intestinal lining comes off, is another effect that is ordinarily seen in a corpse that is several days old. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the cumulative effect was a fundamental transformation in the nature of our knowledge of the physical world, the invention of science. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I was confused by the effect my mother’s absence caused in other people. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“You could blind yourself,” he added, just for effect. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The overall effect sounds as if the drummer, formerly the guardian of the steady pulse, has been asked to improvise a solo from the first beat of the piece. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Astrid says, looking at him suspiciously, her eyebrows furrowed for effect. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

At the time, Nichols was head of CBS Radio’s sound effects department and the only woman in the country working in the field. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Lincoln’s speech was a political as well as a literary tour de force, and what was really clever about it—not to mention cheeky—was that he used it, in effect, to game the Constitution. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

The effect of radioactivity on health was hardly unknown—not least because of widespread press coverage of the poisoning of working women at U.S. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“But it had the opposite effect,” he continued quickly. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

It is an explanation, a cause of the effect she was asking about. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

But their effect was more than either of us could have imagined. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Breasts have the same effect on me as on anyone with my testosterone level. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Penelope tried to assume the same firm, gentle tone Miss Mortimer had always used to good effect on the girls at Swanburne. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

She simply sat there admiring the wonderful effect of her own handiwork. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe Nina had a stupefying effect on all stalwart northerners. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

In effect, Livingston was slotted into the same role on the X-ray tube that he had played on the eleven-inch and twenty-seven-inch cyclotrons. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Mother told us all about it that night, while Dad was snoring under the effects of sleeping pills. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

In effect, the TEC would be the government between December 22 and the election on April 27. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

For them the web of cause and effect was invisible and simultaneously everywhere, which was why a man could sink his net with salmon one night and catch only kelp the next. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

What an effect this had on people living on borrowed time. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cosmologists in their lighter moments sometimes call this the Goldilocks effect–that everything is just right. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

So the effects of relativity are real and have been measured. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

A pleasant side effect is the drill cools even faster. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

To understand the implications of this, we must first understand the Doppler effect. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The effect of this revolving-door incarceration for economic crimes spread fear among people who made their living by trading. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The total effect is rather surreal, especially when one sees Les Africains moving about attending to their tasks in this mechanized setting. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

What gives the three phrases their climactic force is actually a metrical effect. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

By that night a curfew was in effect and Nathan had been released from custody. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

In Germany, the effects of Marburg virus on the brain were particularly frightening, and resembled the effects of rabies: the virus somehow damaged the central nervous system and could destroy the brain, as does rabies. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s outlandish that our arbitrary choice of cutoff dates is causing these long-lasting effects, and no one seems to care about them.” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

With the raft next to the boat, the dragging effect was gone, and there was nothing to steer the boat head into the wind. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her months abroad had little effect on her career at home. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, Wistar failed completely to recognize the bone’s significance and merely made a few cautious and uninspired remarks to the effect that it was indeed a whopper. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

All college students are being asked to sign an official statement to the effect that they “sympathize with the Germans and approve of the New Order.” The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

A wish or a request had no effect. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

From the way he walked, I could tell he was suffering from the effects of my low blow. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The week of Christmas produces a 2 percent drop in payment rates— again, a 15 percent increase in theft, an effect on the same magnitude, in reverse, as that of 9/11. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

It was also Melanie’s last chance to put into effect her plan to get rid of the eyelashes. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

More plausibly, he told of feeding his initial sample by eyedropper to a mouse, which showed no ill effects after ingesting what was then “the world supply” of heavy water. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

It takes longer for the actual therapeutic effects to vanish, just as it took a longer time for them to begin. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“In 1951a woman died in Baltimore in America,” he said, pausing for effect. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Citing exhaustion and, later, the effects of a recent and ongoing bout with hepatitis, Knight departed the campus, leaving the students no negotiating partner. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t sure if it was from yesterday’s head injury, Phorcys’s special effects, or his sister’s lectures on nauseating sea monster facts. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Poor Pim, I might have known what the effect of such an epistle would be. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

On the one hand, Koffi was grateful for the respite; the splendor had a distinctly fatiguing effect after a while. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The four of them, moving in their individual orbits, pretended that the play had had no effect on them. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He didn’t know how long he would have before the cream took effect...and anyway, Nadia Vole was already aware that something was wrong. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

The loss of my tackle that morning had had a sobering effect on me. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Football cheer season is almost over—two games left and then the playoffs if we make it—which means basketball preseason is in full effect: I had four hours of conditioning this morning. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

It was a big whiskey, and it starts to take effect somewhere between the staterooms and the coaches. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Now, he was told, those assassinations had no effect. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

I’ve discovered a trick, and the effect is overwhelming, just like pricking someone with a pin and watching them jump. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

CITES, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, had just come into effect, and the window on the trading of captured wild animals had slammed shut. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was easier than building and carrying a giant picket sign with the word “Geek” on it, but it achieved the exact same effect! Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

While these reforms were desperately needed, deinstitutionalization intersected with the spread of mass imprisonment policies—expanding criminal statutes and harsh sentencing—to disastrous effect. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Indeed, the police make use of the Doppler effect to measure the speed of cars by measuring the wavelength of pulses of radio waves reflected off them. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The darkness outside created a mirrorlike effect in the glass of the display window. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

As if his words could have any effect on this witch. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

It wasn't the point of the paper chain, but it was a great side effect. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Rumsey tried not to smile at their reaction, the effect of his performance. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“Yes. It may be the blood of Christ’s wounds, or it may be the effect of the hard work she does.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

These efforts certainly had a calming effect on the populace, and the worst of the panic began to ease. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

She had granted Florence the victory—with a promptness that had the effect of making Florence, however dimly and unwillingly, wonder if her victory was real. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

But we were all so keenly tuned in to picking up her response, and that’s probably why it had such an effect on us. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Towards the evening of that day, he was sitting outside the nest, repairing his torn haversack and taking stock of his personal effects. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

In The Magnolia Jungle the juxtaposition of the best of these columns against a background of stark horror gives a striking effect. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

By early middle age, Harding’s biographer Francis Russell writes, his “lusty black eyebrows contrasted with his steel-gray hair to give the effect of force, his massive shoulders and bronzed complexion gave the effect of health.” Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

“Then one day, she was back,” Ruth barks, snapping her fingers for dramatic effect. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Technology’s course over the last 1,000 years in China, Europe, and possibly the Indian subcontinent exemplifies those net effects of high, moderate, and low connectedness, respectively. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He tried to sketch the streets of Lisbon, but he couldn’t get the effect he wanted on flat paper. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

In general the effect of all this habitation of the soil is to aerate it and improve both its drainage and the penetration of water throughout the layers of plant growth. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Once I do, the effect is immediate and peculiar. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

When the ban went into effect in 1920, reformers who had campaigned for it were pleased, but plenty of Americans refused to comply with the new rules. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

However, what the singularity theorems really indicate is that the gravitational field becomes so strong that quantum gravitational effects become important: classical theory is no longer a good description of the universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of satisfying me, the kisses have the opposite effect, of making my need greater. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Although chemical manufacturers are required by law to test their materials for toxicity, they are not required to make the tests that would reliably demonstrate genetic effect, and they do not do so. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

But John quickly cooled on the concept, partially out of doubt that his experimental conditions fairly replicated the effects on tumors in the human body. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

When they had put in the feely effects at the studio, it would be a wonderful film. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

I'm wondering if she's worried about the long-term side effects of consuming artificial food coloring. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

The cool water has an invigorating effect on my body, my spirits. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Jefferson ran away with the stage effect,” Adams lamented, “and all the glory of it.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Not even Johnny could believe it was done for effect. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was like a child in a sweet shop, ramming notes together to see what effect they would have. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

No effects on birds seem to have been noticed. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Paul Stewart took charge of the rehearsal that day, working with the sound engineer to incorporate sound effects and music with the actors’ voices. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

No answers provided as to what the arrows are tipped with to create such an astounding effect. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Poverty and the breakdown of family life have secondary effects. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hearing her fear verbalized by Maddie, that her friendship with James was over for good, had the unexpected effect of making Emily realize how silly it sounded. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I lean over to whisper, “It’s good for annoying your mother; at least, it has that effect on mine.” Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I imagined that seeing a Muslim American in hijab who wasn’t on screen to talk politics or terrorism but rather something positive and awe inspiring like my Olympic journey had to have a positive effect. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The possibility of a runaway greenhouse effect suggests that we have to be careful: Even a one- or two-degree rise in the global temperature can have catastrophic consequences. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lindane, according to medical findings, is stored in significant amounts in the brain and functioning liver tissue and may induce “profound and long lasting effects on the central nervous system.” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Constance stayed where she was until a reasonable time elapsed, then stood up, panting heavily for effect. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

If you doubt that this is the case, consider the effect of the war on the ground, in specific locales. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Then he developed abdominal pain, and that made him think that he might have typhoid fever, so he gave himself a course of antibiotic pills, but that had no effect on his illness. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Copper wires can carry very high frequencies too, but only for a few feet before the signal starts to degrade in strength due to certain parasitic effects. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

In 1887 the American physicists Albert Michelson and Edward Morley tried to measure this effect. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Doubtless he meant to sound threatening, but that absurd wisp of a mustache ruined the effect. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

As yet there has been no comprehensive study aimed at testing the mutagenic effects of pesticides as such. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

These Janis served one after another, banquet-style, more because she had only three working burners and two hands than for formal effect. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thus we have experimental evidence that virtual particles exist and have real effects. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The individual effect of a gene, Fisher argued, was like a dot of a pointillist painting. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

If Theo breaks up with S. and she kills herself or goes crazy, Vincent says, “the effect of that on you would be tragic, of course, and could shatter you forever.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The tumors also appeared at lower levels of feeding — in fact, a level that produced no effect was not found. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Once a semblance of silence had descended, I got on the public comm channel, which had the same effect as turning on a giant PA system. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

What the virus did to that boy ... the devastating effect on that boy’s tissues . . . oh, man!—oh, man!—Pete and I smelled this stuff. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In effect, the fading revolutionary ideology and the growing racial demography were converging to close off the political options. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

This was enormously inconvenient, and often had the effect of making visits impossible. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was there, hanging in open air—stentorian and petrifying in its effects. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

“You have to know the effect you have on people.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Obviously, Reynard, you were unaware of the extent of my improvements. You needn’t be seated in my lovely Whisperer to experience its most powerful effect. In this room you are all quite within range.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

“We’ve been tagging other types of fish for years with no negative effects.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Professor Rolf Eliassen of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology testified before a congressional committee to the impossibility of predicting the composite effect of these chemicals, or of identifying the organic matter resulting from the mixture. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“The prance could more naturally be effected by the back end, solo.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cole’s pain dulled as the medication took effect. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Yet line is capable of creating a broad range of effects. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He recognized that the common practice of competing with specially outfitted racing cars muted the promotional effects of victories, given that the consumer knew he was not buying the race car. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The way the effect is exerted may vary, but the end result is always the same. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The stiff ruff that was then in fashion framed my face to good effect, though the first time I wore it, Cristiana insulted me. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The actors have made light of it; they tell her it’s a novel effect. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The sound effects team operated their equipment from a spot where they could see Welles, too. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

I explained that for the moment MK was limited to sabotage, but that if sabotage did not have the desired effect we would probably move on to guerrilla warfare. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

My cousin and I agree that one of the smaller but stranger effects of 9/11 is how it changed our grandmother. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Any matter that fell into the hole would be destroyed at the singularity, and only the gravitational effect of its mass would continue to be felt outside. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her short hair and boyish overalls merely added to the effect. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The same effect would probably be found with other chemicals were the matter investigated. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

My last tree looked like it had died from some fungal infection—not the effect I wanted at all. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

So profoundly responsive a chord had the tale struck in me that the threats of my mother and grandmother had no effect whatsoever. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We could feel the effect we were having the whole play,” Bobby would recall. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

The act, in effect, abolished poll taxes, literacy tests and other barriers to equal opportunity at the ballot box. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Twig gladly abandoned her original question—something with food coloring and placebo effects. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Slipher was the first to notice this effect with light and to realize its potential importance for understanding the motions of the cosmos. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

If you want to see the effects of a putative causal variable, manipulate that variable alone while holding everything else constant. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

The effect of the loss of honeybees ripples to other crops. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

They would be scolded for staying in the city when there was a mandatory evacuation in effect, and they would be sent north on a bus or helicopter. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

For all that, the pair did succeed in measuring the time lag of the photoelectric effect at about two billionths of a second. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Furthermore, I had ridiculously fat chipmunked cheeks, a side effect of treatment. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

“It will be a hassle. Gogol has, in effect, become your good name.” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He explains that he’s illustrating the cocktail party effect. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Did they recoil in horror and say, “Wait a minute, we've got to halt the process, or at least slow it down until we can get a handle on how to prevent these effects”? Nope. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He wondered how long it would be before he, too, felt the effects. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

An important strand of the national story runs through Durham and it involves two men who had a profound effect on the movement: Douglas E. Moore and Floyd B. McKissick. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t seem to have that effect on anyone but it would have been a waste for both of us to be saints. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the most part, art is concerned with reflected light effects rather than with radiant light. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ve noticed it usually happens when—well, I’m an emotional sort of fellow, and I do get carried away. I might, ah, readjust the facts slightly; purely for dramatic effect, you understand.” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

I was busy soaking my shirt at a nearby communal tap so as to combat the effects of tear gas. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many of the professors used the Socratic method—direct, repetitive, and adversarial questioning—which had the incidental effect of humiliating unprepared students. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The stool he let fly hit the man’s right shoulder on the packed muscle under the shoulder blade— like solid rock, for all the effect one saw. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Ebola experiments were not a success in the sense that the drugs had no effect on the virus. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It thrilled her, the thought of what they’d just done, the effect she could have on him. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

They also gave fluids, although the dire effect of dehydration was not well known. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t stop with just the effect on Americans. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

In effect, he had no role whatsoever in promoting Callender’s libels against Adams. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Einstein’s earlier pathbreaking work on the photoelectric effect suggested strongly that light was composed of a stream of “light quanta,” or particles. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The institution of a legal, government-sanctioned racial caste system was overturned in 1994 with the first democratic elections, but its effects still haunted the country. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

To add insult to injury, she’s just going on about her life like me not being around has no effect on her whatsoever. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

For some reason, Pong's words were having the opposite effect. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

This NAfME post addresses both issues and gives guidance to mediate its effects in the classroom. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

“Did you have a significant effect on the development of some strain of philosophy that profoundly impacted the world?” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

A foul, rotten taste pervades my mouth, and the water has little effect on it. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

In effect, the political institutions and the very authority of the federal government were too new and ill-formed to cope effectively with the foreign and domestic challenges facing the new nation. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Dad continued with his raptures, oblivious to the effect he was having on his listeners. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

And seeing what he’d written had the same effect as before, brought the words home to him. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mission would study the effects of space on a geriatric astronaut. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

I never thought about the consequences or the effect that suicide would have on anyone else before. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Yet between April 1958 and December 1961 several hundred chemicals were screened at the Orlando laboratory for a possible sterilizing effect. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“That had a very strong effect on the early Sesame Street. Zany, relatively quick one-liners. The kids seemed to love it.” The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The final report passed by the House in effect placed any and all debate over slavery as it existed in the South out of bounds forever. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Dad met with his foremen and told them a twenty percent cut in salaries—his included—would take effect immediately. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“But that part must not have worked so well. They all still suffer from that pesky ‘chronic mournfulness effect.’” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

The effect is excruciating, but I have no one but myself to blame. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

The effect was only slightly inhibited by the fact that he had burned his eyebrows off again about two days ago. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Its effect on the children was dramatic: they turned and fled at once. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were, in effect, an epitome of his reading. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The effect was as if each teacher was being examined by a fierce inspector, and each lesson became an ordeal in which not the pupils but the teachers were being tested. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

"I will use threaded stopper with a small hole for the wires. It will have little effect on the seal." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

She learned about the effects of carbon dioxide on different plants, the medicinal properties of hops and licorice and red clover. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Fischer, in effect, had honored the country of Iceland by playing there in 1972, and now he was in trouble. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

As the boys became more comfortable with one another, Luma was getting a better feel for her roster and for the ways she could move players around for different effects. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

At ordinary speeds the effect would be imperceptible. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Galileo accepted, even though the increase in salary would only take effect from the following year, and even though it would commit him to burdensome teaching duties. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

The general effect is said to parallel closely that produced by X-rays. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

He loved to read short stories aloud, taking all the parts, providing all the sound effects. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Above them, the intention craft hung as firmly as if it were anchored and bolted there; no gust of wind had the slightest effect on it. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

In preparation for longer, narrative stories in which sound effects and music are incorporated, there are many children’s rhymes that tell stories and incorporate fun sounds. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

In such places the use of insecticides without regard for the effects on fish creates immediate problems. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

But that didn't mean there were no after effects from his time in prison. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

They were both exhausted and were beginning to feel the effects of the sleepless night in their bones and in their soul. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Plutarch had claimed ‘palpable experience’ of the disempowering effect of garlic upon the magnet. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Examples, explanations, violated expectations, elaborations, sequences, causes, and effects are arcs of coherence that pinpoint how one statement follows from another. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Stones and arrows sped upward with devastating effect. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The cumulative effect of the sound was that of a mild winter wind or the roll of a summer surf. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

An enzyme that digested RNA had no effect. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Then there are the ones who have not resigned themselves, who still try for an effect of glamour. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

As human beings we have a hard time with this kind of progression, because the end result — the effect — seems far out of proportion to the cause. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was some distance from the lifeboat, but the effect was perfectly visible. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

They are small touches, but the effect is that I feel like my clothes are smudged with dirt. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The separation of the speakers by migrations had effects on language comparable to the speciation observed by Darwin on various islands of Galapagos. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

However, no sooner was he stretched out than he sat bolt upright, his head and shoulders suddenly propelled into view, with somewhat the macabre-comic effect of a corpse falling out of a closet. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

But never had a pariah had such a chilling effect on bringers of death. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

They called the flood and all its effects part of the secret commonwealth. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I kept the scenes long, made as much happen within a short space of time as possible; all of which, I felt, made for greater density and richness of effect. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Not long ago, the black man in America was fed a dose of another form of the weakening, lulling and deluding effects of so-called “integration.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Where the sun hit the hair, there was a prismatic effect. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The effect of this gear-crunching was to flip her around in midair, so that her boot heels were pointed directly at the troll’s head. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

“But no one looked at the effects of these new species intermingling with native populations? That’s the danger, isn’t it?” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

I would have to effect something in between. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Half will be buried with my body, the other half turned in to Command with my papers and personal effects. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The leading early investigator, G. K. Gilbert of Columbia University, modeled the effects of impacts by flinging marbles into pans of oatmeal. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

That morning they had been coached on how best to protect themselves from blows and from the effects of tear gas. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

But a careful analysis of the facts shows that the innovative policing strategies probably had little effect on this huge decline. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

I can only put it down to the effect of the tranquilizers. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But that doesn’t stop the ice-water effect when George’s mother calls out his name, shocked and angry. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

There are many obvious reasons for these effects of history, such as that long experience of state societies and agriculture implies experienced administrators, experience with market economies, and so on. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

This red shift, observed in the spectral lines of distant galaxies and interpreted as a Doppler effect, is the key to cosmology. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the stranger effects of fame, Elizebeth discovered, was that the public started writing to you. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

As inventor of more than one thousand radio effects, Nichols had created space-travel and alien sounds for the Buck Rogers radio show. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

The Bolivian military aided the incursion by hunting down the Siriono and throwing them into what were, in effect, prison camps. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

But, as indicated above, the real importance of the singularity theorems was that they showed that the gravitational field must become so strong that quantum gravitational effects could not be ignored. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Welles replied that he didn't "know what the legislation would be....Radio is new,” he continued, "and we are learning about the effect it has on people. We’ve learned a terrible lesson.” Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Call’s total lack of enthusiasm for my poem had had a dampening effect. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The church modes, like their Greek forerunners, were ascribed certain moods, and a great deal of theoretical energy was expended over hundreds of years describing their effect and their best possible application. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The Crown Prince’s silence was not her desired effect. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Economists, meanwhile, say that the gradual improvement in the city’s economy over the course of the 1990s had the effect of employing those who might otherwise have become criminals. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the Cavendish, gold resisted the disintegration effect, except for a modest result the scientists traced to contamination of the heavier targets by light impurities such as boron. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Although medical opinion is divided on the question, much evidence exists to support the view that similar effects may occur in human tissues. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The hasty moments together, the locked doors and base contrivances, the guilty manoeuvres which the husband’s presence forced on his lovers—these had the effect of soiling what had no excuse unless it was beautiful. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Luke had that effect on girls—even donkey-legged vampires—and Percy wasn’t sure bringing up his name was such a good idea. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The abortion ban stayed in effect until Ceaujescu finally lost his grip on Romania. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

We were starting to feel the effects of this transition, especially at school. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Up until then humans had displayed some innovative adaptations and behaviours, but their effect on their environment had been negligible. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He often preached that looking away from evil and remaining silent was, in effect, supporting the evil. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

We have seen, in this book, how a number of relatively minor changes in our external environment can have a dramatic effect on how we behave and who we are. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not only that, but the endless diagonal rocking of the boat was having an undeniable effect on my stomach—and judging from the greenish color of the faces around me, I wasn’t alone. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

It seemed like a part of a movie, like the moonlight shining off the surface wasn’t even real, it was special effects. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

But I can’t bring myself to move, to break the effect of her words. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Also, Anna is honest about all of it in a way no one else really is: Throughout the book, she refers to herself as the side effect, which is just totally correct. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Apart from any directly toxic effects, curious indirect results follow the use of certain herbicides. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The effect was to convince the ruling groups of all countries that a few more atomic bombs would mean the end of organized society, and hence of their own power. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

To great effect, Reagan echoed white frustration in race-neutral terms through implicit racial appeals. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

All of these persisting effects were severe enough to make it difficult for the physician to carry on his practice. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

You must not delay putting them into effect. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

No one outside of the Negro community could imagine the profound effect this action had in killing the Negro’s hope and breaking his morale. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

All too soon it was obvious that he was fast losing ground, and the effects of his inadequate diet were beginning to show in his endurance. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The eventual effects of eliminating sage and seeding with grass are largely conjectural. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The Doppler effect is the key to cosmology. explosions, that produced any particular sample of magnesium. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

A letter to that effect was sent to Bobby in Belgrade, and upon announcement of the indictment, federal officials issued a warrant for his arrest. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I contend, furthermore, that we have allowed these chemicals to be used with little or no advance investigation of their effect on soil, water, wildlife, and man himself. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

She has moved on from Katrina in many ways, and yet the residual effects arrive at unexpected times. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Considering the whole span of earthly time, the opposite effect, in which life actually modifies its surroundings, has been relatively slight. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Simply inserting the Crystal Key into the keyhole had no effect. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

What's more, Adams let it be known that he was considering either Jefferson or Madison to head the delegation—in effect, including the leadership of the Republican party in the shaping of foreign policy. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“So that’s how you know these strange messages are having an effect on people.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Some scientists who are willing to concede the potent effect of environmental radiation on man nevertheless question whether mutagenic chemicals can, as a practical proposition, have the same effect. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Some of its effects resemble rabies—psychosis, madness. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I do not know if I had an effect on him, but the coverage certainly changed. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was not an accident or side effect. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He was a northerner, with black curls that verged on womanish, an effect he tempered with his carefully tended beard. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

He knew there had been a mandatory evacuation in effect, and he assumed this had something to do with that. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I’d been uncomfortably cold since leaving camp, having underdressed in anticipation of the solar-oven effect that had occurred every other morning when the sun hit the Western Cwm. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

The truth of her situation did not take genuine effect until she was halfway to Humperdinck’s room. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

And slowly a discussion begins—as Morrie has wanted all along—about the effect of silence on human relations. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was also a postscript to this effect: Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

The effect of the draught began at the toes, and rose steadily through every limb, bringing refreshment and vigour as it coursed upwards, right to the tips of the hair. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

She felt that Joan was being intellectually stimulated at home, but that the creative ferment she always attempted to foster was having little effect on Bobby. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The special effects were a bit realistic for my taste, though. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

While he disliked the prospect of getting beaten to a pulp, what worried him even more was the effect it would have on his mother. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The effect was always the same: a smile from little Ama. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

But I hold fast to my belief that each one of us can effect change in whatever ways are open to us. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

I was a little taken aback by the effect this seemed to have upon my listeners. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

The overall musical effect is cinematic: shock and awe for a fin de siecle generation seeking thrills and spills galore. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I feel the effects of the serum immediately afterward. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The immediate effect is that fresh air begins to circulate in the tiny compartment. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

For her, like Dr. Gazzaley, the applications are potentially widespread—someday we may be able to treat attention deficit disorder, learning disabilities, and attention-related memory loss without drugs, which can have side effects. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

In effect, the government of Pennsylvania had closed its doors as tightly as any of Philadelphia’s shopkeepers had. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

This had the effect, at least, of breaking the trance-like state we’d been in, and we gathered round her to listen, the way we might have done at Hailsham when a guardian started to speak. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man waited until the broth had cooled before he took a sip, long enough to be sure his guardsman had suffered no ill effects. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Grandfather weakly hit back at the man, but it had no effect. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

My hit-point counter was already at maximum, so the spell had no effect. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

We discussed Mr. Hynning for years afterward and many of the men imitated the way he spoke to comic effect. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

To counterbalance the effect of these new political allies, the authorities also put a handful of common-law prisoners in our section. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Central to Gilbert’s enterprise was the claim that you could reproduce his experiments and confirm his results: his book was, in effect, a collection of experimental recipes. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Fact: Walking in the narrow glow from a flashlight—or even two flashlights—had the effect of making everything outside that glow seem eerie. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Something to the effect of ‘There’s obviously something going on between you two and it’s disgusting.’” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

She remembered them all, and she knew just when to pause to give the words their best effect. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Societal This chapter will concentrate on the harmful social effects of innumeracy, with particular emphasis on the conflict between society and the individual. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d hoped it would have showed the effects of the resin by now. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The Department declared, however, that it would continue to cooperate with the Forest Service “in determining ways to minimize adverse effects.” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

With all of this went the demoralizing effect of an unsuccessful war and the extraordinary challenges associated with rebuilding new state and local governments. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

But even though the labels have changed over the years—from “bonehead,” to “remedial,” to “basic”— the effects are still the same. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

He was talking to Dicey, but he was watching the effect of his words on Edie. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How on earth do you achieve that effect? The skunk stripe,” she says, reaching up and brushing her own temple. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

By now, she has almost dispelled the effect of her father’s visitation yesterday. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

In his opinion, an injury to the brain occurring as early as mine should have no lasting effects on physical mobility. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said the war would be over as soon as the truce went into effect, and he didn’t want to be the last guy to die in Nam. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The title was rambling, but the message was succinct: if you mixed the effects of three to five variant genes on any trait, you could generate nearly perfect continuity in phenotype. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

I was about to say something to that effect when she put her finger over my lips, distracting me in about eighteen different ways. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“You are in complete charge of the Midway. Go ahead with the work. You are responsible only to me. I will write orders to that effect. Good luck.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Among the other bad effects it brings with it, being unarmed makes you contemptible. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

“She thought it was scary, no matter how fake the special effects were.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

He saw the emotional effect the injury was having on Boobie—the prolonged periods of depression as one Friday night after another just came and went. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

What effect was Cleopatra having on Caesar’s judgment? Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

But the effect on prisoners was perhaps equally damaging. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

However, the radiation produced in a nuclear war, among its many other effects, debilitates the body’s immunological system, causing a deterioration of our ability to resist disease. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two weeks later I received a letter from him that said, in effect, that when he, too, sometimes had doubts, he relied on his faith to carry him through. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

On the train, we are quietly miserable as we try to assess what effect we might be having. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

But I had no idea what effect they would have on him. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

This suggested that phosphorus would be a better carrier of therapeutic radiation than radio-sodium, since the latter distributes itself all through the body as salt, attenuating its effect. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Maplewood is a diverse town, but in the classrooms, segregation was in full effect, and I was on the wrong side of the color line. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

In the nights, while she lay in bed waiting for the tranquilizers to take effect, she often put her hand to her navel, like a fisherman checking his line. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I think the whiskey-cold-medicine-energy-soda-disgusting-cherry-menthol-throat-lozenge-lack-of-sleep effect was taking its toll on me. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

It was a week before the race laws went into effect and violence against the colored population was on the rise in rehearsal. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The overall effect is slightly morbid and incredibly elegant. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Listening and cognitive abilities in 10- and 11-year-olds: The blur effect. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Such was the power of an ymbryne over peculiar children: the very presence of one—even one we’d only just met—had an immediate pacifying effect on us. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Something had happened then, some development in evolution, to make the human brain an ideal channel for amplifying their effects. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He had had much more difficulty with the curse than Harry, though Moody assured him the effects would wear off by lunchtime. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

As striking as these effects of barriers on crop and livestock diffusion are the effects on other features of human societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Maial” he yelled, but the magic word seemed to have no effect. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The repellant effect of bursts of ultrasonic sound is being tested in Canada against corn borer and cutworm moths. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The point about Connectors is that by having a foot in so many different worlds, they have the effect of bringing them all together. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Other of its effects look eerily like a bad cold. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like everyone else, instead of judging the final effect of Sophie Sassoon’s makeup job, I was impressed by the complexity of it. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Father announced this was the unfortunate effect of believing in false idols and he washed his hands of the affair. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was the last person to deserve a halo, but I studied the effect, cupping my hands under my breasts, studying my pinky-brown nipples, the thin curves of my waist, every soft and glowing turn. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The effects of swainsonine poisoning are chronic—the alkaloid rarely kills outright. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

All in all, the porch had the effect of a cool-looking clubhouse. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Nakedness has no effect on them, gives them no cause for embarrassment. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The Object was still too young for the effects to tell on her. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

An article and video on the psychological effects of music on health and to help the body sleep. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

But strangely enough, this didn’t have any kind of effect on me. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If it’s still raw, it will take longer to work its way into your system. Which is good, as the effects will be spread out over a longer period of time.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The effect was to throw the boat momentarily out of balance and to abruptly check the crucial momentum that the crew was trying to build up. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

More than twenty years later, my sister still has the same effect on me. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps it was caused by the painful tooth. To some extent the marring effects of Watergate may have played a part.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“It drains clockwise, as it always does in the northern hemisphere. That is known as the Coriolis effect,” Penelope noted. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

“Tom, Tom, if I knew I couldn’t tell you,” said Slughorn, wagging a reproving, sugar-covered finger at Riddle, though ruining the effect slightly by winking. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Swann assigned Lawrence to design an experiment to investigate the effect, acknowledging cheerfully that previous efforts all had yielded inconclusive results. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

It takes me a while to get the right effect. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Even our Experimental Philosophers and Physicians find, that an experiment that hits ofttimes, quite misseth afterwards on other Subjects, and they know not why. A course of effects may oft come from unknown causes.’ The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Odd too is the effect produced when he uses academic jargon—bubbles at the tip of his tongue: ‘Topos... negative capability... vegetation imagery in Shakespearean comedy.’ Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The six grandest buildings of the exposition towered over the central court with an effect more dramatic and imposing than even he had imagined. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The effect on the life of the waters was catastrophic. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

As he lay in bed, he realized how time seemed to stop when he was high, how the drug—smoking it, feeling its effects, recovering from it—made him forget everything else. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

The effect is so carefully calculated that the artist must have wanted to guide our eye to the painting in the background. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He is now, in effect, the head of the family, even though Vincent is the oldest. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The only effect it seemed to have was to make him even less inclined to share his plans. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was the final chance to blend the actors, sound effects, and music. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

His style, in effect, was not to have one. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Her presence in Rome was having the desired effect on Caesar even if it was making his fellow senators tense. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

The lingering effects of the booze and a general exhaustion pressed me into the carpet. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

It had an all but electrical effect upon me to see the signature of the “Messenger of Allah.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

In effect, the headline appears to be the caption for the photograph. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The change helped insulate agents from local corruption and created a truly national force, yet it also ignored regional difference and had the dehumanizing effect of constantly uprooting employees. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The distinction was important to officers, who wanted no personal responsibility for the harmful effects of the system. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of affirming an idea, you effect its affirmation; rather than postponing something, you implement a postponement. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

But she exercised a powerful effect on both boys and girls. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

This plan was not thought entirely without merit by our number, and we spake of how best to effect it. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

The sound effects brought every fork in the restaurant down. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It was the first thing they had done in two weeks that had any visible effect at all,” he later explained. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“That will make your ladyship’s situation at present more pitiable; but it will have no effect on me.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

Einstein solved this quandary—the puzzle of the photoelectric effect—but his solution was even more revolutionary than Planck’s hypothesis. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The Demerol had set off some kind of weird Doppler effect in my head, like the whine of car tires speeding past and receding in the distance. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Clarkson and his committee had, in effect, seized control of the government. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

I’m not talking about their contribution to the world of special effects. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry,” I say, but it has no effect on her. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The effect was disquieting; it made her wonder if the whole palace was just an extraordinary illusion. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Though this mind-set prevented the Indians from contributing much to geometry, it had another, unexpected effect. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The press had more than the usual fun with such an esoteric engineering concept, calling the new planes “wasp-waisted” and “Coke-bottle shaped” and talking about the “Marilyn Monroe effect.” Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

More or less reflexively, he dropped into his equations something called the cosmological constant, which arbitrarily counterbalanced the effects of gravity, serving as a kind of mathematical pause button. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Could the effects of this germinal mutation be undone? Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You should not be here,” he said, his words weak and slurred—an effect of his pain nanites flooding his system. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

No obviously bad effects were noticed from these ill-advised unions, but one or two old maids or gardener boys marked a weakening of faculties and a disposition toward eccentricity in some of the children. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, after several years in which to observe the effects of spraying, the Canadians find a mixed situation, but one that affords very little comfort to devotees of salmon fishing, provided spraying is continued. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Tarun Das was heading the Confederation of Indian Industry when the wall fell in Berlin, and he saw its ripple effect felt all the way to India. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

To Sternberg, practical intelligence includes things like “knowing what to say to whom, knowing when to say it, and knowing how to say it for maximum effect.” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

In some cases, we will find that Eratosthenes was prescient in his thinking; in others, that he was sloppy or mistaken, but that his errors had the fortuitous effect of canceling each other out. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

Like Washington Irving, he could be reversed with good effect whenever he grew monotonous. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

It’s a side effect of your magical medical cocktail. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

The old woman's sobbing was having a strange effect upon me-as when a child, seeing the tears of its parents, is moved by both fear and sympathy to cry. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another one, popular with inhabitants of northern Europe, invokes the supposed stimulatory effects of their homeland’s cold climate and the inhibitory effects of hot, humid, tropical climates on human creativity and energy. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

But the parts have basically the same rhythms, so that the effect, when sung together, is of chords being sung. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

He even wrote a paper to that effect. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, it remains an open question how wide and lasting the effects of idiosyncratic individuals on history really are. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

If they exist, perhaps we can eat a kilogram of them with no ill effects. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

And what effect did all this might have on Alaska’s glaciers? A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The effect of such an education was that he had grown up without any of the useful accomplishments for living—without malice, vanity, suspicion, cruelty, and the commoner forms of selfishness. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The effects of musical training on structural brain development: A longitudinal study. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

It can be imagined what effect Rocinante had on two hundred teenage prisoners of education just settling down to serve their winter sentence. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whenever that halo effect happened, I wanted to stare at her until the sunlight stopped, but my heart stopped before the light did. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Determining the effects of Voodoo on everyone’s life was especially important. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Their short-lived venture had no known effect on native life. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Dr. Maria added, “We don’t really understand the long-term effects of Phalanxifor. Very few people have been on it as long as you have.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

In effect, the committee report extended the deadline for the consideration of emancipation to bring it into line with the deadline for the end of the slave trade. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

When Papi argued, he put all his energy into holding himself erect, maintaining a steady calm that was chilling to us children but had the opposite effect on Mami. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The law was due to take effect the next year, and it required every Indian—man, woman, and child over the age of eight—to register and be fingerprinted. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

And the whiteness makes the effect difficult to see, but the entire garden is transparent. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The camera crews, perched like buzzards on rooftops, only add to the effect. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Flamsteed was one of the first people to suggest that the phenomenon was really a single object, postulating that it had been repelled from the Sun by some sort of magnetic effect. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

The medicine goes into effect thirty minutes after consumption, but if I forget to take it, the effects afterward are unpredictable. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

This haul was in effect the start of the twentieth century’s Vivaldi revival and a great flowering of musicological interest in this hitherto all but forgotten master. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“A scarf here. A cutlass there. One or two deft and tasteful suggestions. That’s all. The total effect is rather fetching.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cancer kids are essentially side effects of the relentless mutation that made the diversity of life on earth possible. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

The effect of the name on the people in the car is immediate and bewildering: they lower their weapons. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Only I can’t seem to keep that up for too long before my natural urge to idealize goes into effect. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

In this effect, the organic phosphorus compounds resemble the alkaloid poison muscarine, found in a poisonous mushroom, the fly amanita. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The science books explained the causes and effects. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

There was a good deal of macabre testimony about decomposition and body fluids and the effects of chloroform. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

A plasma, a gas of charged particles, is just like a metal plate as far as the Casimir effect is concerned. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Their bright-red hair is out in full effect, and they wear coordinating outfits the warm blue of a twilight sky, edged in pinks and yellows. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Whether he was playacting or not, thought Harry, the effect was good. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

He regarded this as a slight, that I was in effect demoting him, and he refused, choosing instead to run for the presidency himself. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

This discovery—called regression to the mean—would have a powerful effect on the science of measurement and the concept of variance. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Darnell and Misty prove that whatever this is doesn’t necessarily take effect right away.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I zoom in to catch the dramatic effect. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

So when Charlie calls me that, it doesn’t have the effect he thought it would. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Any mention of her ‘works’ always had a bad effect upon Jo, who either grew rigid and looked offended, or changed the subject with a brusque remark, as now. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

But to know that the feeling of my palm against hers has so little of an effect on her that she’s actively thinking about Coop’s sexual status? Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

That still left open the question of who would manage Livermore day to day, in effect as Lawrences viceroy. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Any interior architectural details of Royal Residences including Buckingham Palace, Kensington Palace, etc., and personal effects found therein; Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Heart attack is a window on the effects of class on health. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

His father was a successful dentist, and so his family had been spared the worst effects of the Depression and lived fairly comfortably, teeth being prone to decay regardless of economic trends. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

By the looks of it, this dispensation had been in effect for some time. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The only explanation seemed to be that the stars must be very much further away than the planets, at least hundreds of times further away, so that the parallax effect is too small to see. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

I can well imagine how he must have looked that day, framed by the doorway of the vehicle, his dark, severe presence quite blotting out the effect of the gentle Hertfordshire scenery behind him. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

The ivy which used to soften the effect of that bright red facade had been stripped away, perhaps to preserve the brickwork. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The four of us had been given what was in effect the prison’s penthouse: a spacious room on the third and topmost floor of the prison. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now that the word had popped into my head I couldn’t think of anything else, as if the word itself were salty and the more I thought of it, the worse the effect. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The tweaking was painless, and the effect subtle. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The appearance of the sign in the entrance hall had a marked effect upon the inhabitants of the castle. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

In effect, Madison got what he had always demanded: settlement before assumption. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The test result does not have the desired effect of making me feel absolved or even clean. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Astrology maintains that the gravitational attraction of the planets at the time of one’s birth somehow has an effect on one’s personality. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s a very nice effect,” he said, examining the mess of glass, his voice friendly again. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

We were, in effect, climbing through the hollowed center of a gigantic ice cube. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Review of action makes many reported contacts and torpedoes fired appear doubtful. Freak weather effects on radar and overeager sonarmen may have accounted for many reports.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

All these effects that continental differences in area, population, ease of diffusion, and onset of food production exerted on the rise of technology became exaggerated, because technology catalyzes itself. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Some scientists think that when expansion is followed by contraction, when the spectra of distant galaxies are all blue-shifted, causality will be inverted and effects will precede causes. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You have that effect on us,” I explain. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

But that he had done things far worse, and the effects were everywhere in the cloudless sky, on the dry brown hills, shrinking skin and hide taut over sharp bone. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

It is ironic, therefore, that later examination of the photographs taken on that expedition showed the errors were as great as the effect they were trying to measure. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she stopped, it was as though some momentous change of polarity had taken place inside her mind, one that had an immediate, pacifying effect on her body. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

Not the kind that are professionally printed with graphics and lasers and cool shadow effects. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

“It’s the effect of your mother’s Cuban coffee!” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

With his size and his speed and his ability, he was worth the special status at whatever cost and whatever effect it had on the dynamics of the team or his own development. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Simple physical movements and observations can have a profound effect on how we feel and think. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The New York Times found it necessary to issue a warning on its garden page to the effect that unless special protective devices were installed poisons might get into the water supply by back siphonage. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Perhaps it was, in effect, what she had asked him to do but still she was annoyed. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Having children play Orff instruments and classroom instruments as sound effects using the aesthetics above, would add greatly to the stories, as would composing an original song for the stories. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

The effect of radiation on the mutation rate in flies had two immediate implications. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

After the 1st time, her words have the opposite effect. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I do so want you to be good! Please, please be good and ...” Two minutes later the Voice and the soma vapour had produced their effect. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The conference was the supreme authority, even greater than the executive, and we found ourselves saddled with a boycott that would be almost impossible to effect. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We wanted somebody who had a direct effect on education. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

If nature could achieve such remarkable effects on animal populations through survival and selection, Galton imagined accelerating the process of refining humans via human intervention. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Children can feel, but they cannot analyse their feelings; and if the analysis is partially effected in thought, they know not how to express the result of the process in words. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z