How to Use cumulative effect in a Sentence

cumulative effect

noun
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  • The cumulative effect is New York swag coastal, with a sense of humor and mischief.
    — Caroline Hatchett, Robb Report, 1 Nov. 2024
  • The hand-offs from one character to the other follow the lyrics and make the cumulative effect moving.
    — Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 30 June 2023
  • Brunson’s injury alone isn’t a cause for concern, but the cumulative effect the injury bug has had on the Knicks is beginning to take its toll.
    — Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 7 Feb. 2024
  • 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
  • Each increase by itself does not amount to much, but the cumulative effect is to add to the unaffordability of the region.
    — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 23 June 2024
  • 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
  • The cumulative effect is akin to Slacker meets Cannonball Run along Route 66, on cruise control.
    — Vulture Editors, Vulture, 20 Apr. 2024
  • Zoom out: There are a number of factors at play that have a cumulative effect on Gen Z's financial attitudes.
    — Ben Berkowitz, Axios, 3 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • If there’s been any cumulative effect in December, the Rams can take advantage.
    — Adam Grosbard, Orange County Register, 2 Sep. 2024
  • But the cumulative effect of these policies and changes has made a sophisticated and high-impact scheme much less likely to succeed.
    — Daniel Byman, Foreign Affairs, 24 Aug. 2021
  • Even if Jones didn’t get many major starring roles, the cumulative effect of his hundreds of performances and achievements is its own kind of star quality.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 10 Sep. 2024
  • The cumulative effect of the alternative news sources may far outshine the major media reports, and may have a much greater impact than any of us realize.
    — John Brandon, Forbes, 27 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • There’s a strong cumulative effect to the director’s approach, whereby all the fragments eventually come together to form a cohesive whole that has the sting of true calamity and loss.
    — Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Aug. 2024
  • 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
  • The cumulative effect on young people of this mix of brutal repression and aggressive courtship is, for the moment at least, silence: among Russia’s youth today, there are few signs of any meaningful currents of resistance.
    — Andrei Kolesnikov, Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • The cumulative effect of global opinion is critical to Israel’s prospects for victory.
    — Ami Ayalon, Foreign Affairs, 11 Apr. 2024
  • 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

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