affected

In a sentence

Six example sentences with affected, each labelled with its topic.

• Villages downstream were affected by the dam long before anyone measured the drop in silt reaching the delta.

  Environment

• Grain prices across three continents were affected for months by the canal closure, long after the shipping lanes reopened.

  Economics

• Only the joints on her left side were affected, which told the rheumatologist the swelling was not systemic.

  Medicine

• Flights across the whole region were affected by the ash cloud, and stranded passengers slept on airport floors.

  Travel

• Only users on the older app version were affected by the bug, which is why support saw so few complaints.

  Technology

• Pension funds were affected most by the rate rise, since their long bond holdings lost value overnight.

  Finance

Found in these word lists

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More Academic words

• spectrum
• focused
• minimum
• established
• afterwards
• finance
• intensive
• implemented
• document
• strategy
• subsequently
• traditionally