in effect

ADVERB
  1. in actuality or reality or fact
    in effect, they had no choice
    she is effectively his wife
ADJECTIVE
  1. exerting force or influence
    the law is already in effect (or in force)
    a warranty good for two years
    the law is effective immediately
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How To Use in effect In A Sentence

  • Carried by B-52 bombers, the "bunker busters" used five parachutes to land softly on their targets before detonating a nine megaton explosion, in effect simulating an earthquake.
  • In effect, they involve a comparison of the general equilibrium of the economy with and without the government budget.
  • And there was no response in effect to nutrient content grads of internode length and ramets amount.
  • I anticipate success in effective economic control.
  • It used to be that homeowners would in effect be forced to save as they paid back the principal on their mortgage loan.
  • Many of Rogers' assertions and specific rebuttals (which form, in effect, a counter-reading of Kornbluh's book) are best answered by Kornbluh himself.
  • Slide 52: Arginine vasopressin (hypothalamus) - formerly known as antidiuretic hormone, stimulated by changes in effective circulating volume. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • Even though he has in effect been sacked, he will trouser a £150,000 bonus.
  • Anyone proposing such a project, which in effect aims to politicize young people, is inevitably warily received and closely scrutinized.
  • Taken together these are a significant help and in effect constitute an indirect government subsidy.
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