How to Use cumulative effect in a Sentence

cumulative effect

noun
  • The hand-offs from one character to the other follow the lyrics and make the cumulative effect moving.
    Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 30 June 2023
  • Or the cumulative effect of small delays in the thousands of decisions required to ensure a flight takes off on time.
    Lalit Ahuja, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
  • The cumulative effect of these misguided decisions will be felt for years to come.
    Stephen J. Ubl, STAT, 6 July 2023
  • But the cumulative effect of all of this has many experts in the eating disorder field worried about how this might affect their patients.
    Cole Kazdin, TIME, 16 Apr. 2024
  • The cumulative effect of the story’s twists and turns is powerful, if somewhat predictable.
    Dallasnews.com Staff, Dallas News, 9 Mar. 2023
  • What is known is that there is a cumulative effect and four to six dosing sessions are recommended to see a significant shift in mood.
    Aubree Nichols, ELLE, 21 Feb. 2023
  • The cumulative effect of injuries took a toll on the Colts defensive line late in the season, contributing to the team’s defensive swoon in December and January.
    The Indianapolis Star, 3 Apr. 2023
  • The cumulative effect provides enough light to navigate the space easily, while still maintaining the sense of overall darkness.
    Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 2 May 2023
  • Inside, Tiffany lamps, a gas fireplace, and rows of vinyl records behind the bar add up to a cumulative effect as enticing as bar manager Ryan Polhemus’s creative fusions.
    James Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Apr. 2023
  • What Christie said Christie, by contrast, is looking at inflation’s cumulative effect during Biden’s watch.
    Politifact Staff Writer, Dallas News, 1 Aug. 2023
  • That said, this is another log on the fire, and the cumulative effect of these indictments and potential indictments, including this judgement will add up for voters.
    Tal Axelrod, ABC News, 10 May 2023
  • And then there’s the cumulative effect on your résumé, what message your employment history sends to future employers.
    Byscott Galloway, Fortune, 23 Apr. 2024
  • But the cumulative effect is nothing short of astonishing.
    Ann Hornaday, Washington Post, 14 Oct. 2023
  • There is something wonderfully paradoxical in the cumulative effect of the book.
    Hazlitt, 31 May 2023
  • Advertisement The cumulative effect of Gego’s theme-and-variation approach, which has as much to do with weaving as with architecture, is deeply poetic.
    Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 14 Apr. 2023
  • Our wager was that this weirdness, this dankness, was not ultimately about a particular cast of political characters but about the cumulative effect of the internet on the reordering of culture.
    Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Feb. 2023
  • The cumulative effect leads to the possibility that the next generational talent could one day not only choose to play with the pros early, but also receive top-notch treatment and development opportunities on the other side.
    Thuc Nhi Nguyen, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2024
  • Officials representing education associations had, like Orr, raised concerns about the cumulative effect of tax cut bills on the ETF.
    Mike Cason | McAson@al.com, al, 1 June 2023
  • These actions only exacerbate the cumulative effect of decades of inequitable policies related to the education of African American students.
    Raymond Pierce, Forbes, 15 Feb. 2024
  • The cumulative effect of retailers deploying AI at scale to nudge, sway, and even manipulate consumer shopping decisions raises ethical questions about transparency and consent.
    Elijah Clark, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
  • The cumulative effect of rising costs, high sticker prices and increasing financial discount rates forecasts a deepening financial crisis on every level, with impacts determined in part by wealth, location, academic program and size.
    Brian Mitchell, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Nord says that the Danish team’s biological explanation nicely complements the psychological theory that augmenting positive emotions has a cumulative effect on mood.
    WIRED, 26 Oct. 2023
  • The cumulative effect is anesthetizing, and politically damaging.
    Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2023

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