in effect

Speech parts

1. in effect - Adjective

2. in effect - Adverb

3. in effect - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

exerting force or influence

in actuality or reality or fact

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Examples

What postmodernism gives us instead is a multicultural defense for male violence - a defense for it wherever it is, which in effect is a pretty universal defense. Catharine MacKinnon

A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine. Alan Turing

In effect the people were present through their representatives, and were themselves, step by step and point by point, acting in the conduct of public affairs. No longer merely an ultimate check on government, they were in some sense the government. Bernard Bailyn

A warrior acts as if he knows what he is doing, when in effect he knows nothing. Carlos Castaneda

In fact, a sense of essence is, in essence, the essence of sense, in effect. Douglas Hofstadter

But in terms of Saddam Hussein being there, let's remember that his country is divided, in effect. He does not control the northern part of his country. We are able to keep arms from him. His military forces have not been rebuilt. Condoleezza Rice

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