How to Use effectuate in a Sentence

effectuate

verb

• That was not the time and place to effectuate the arrest.
  — Chris Harris, PEOPLE.com, 30 July 2020
• As such, the norm is that no order need be issued to effectuate IOP amendments.
  — Jack Kelly and Matthew Defour, Journal Sentinel, 30 Aug. 2023
• The reason is that the police almost never make it to the stores in response to a shoplifting call in time to effectuate an arrest.
  — David Marchesephoto Illustration By Bráulio Amado, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2022
• This payout was a massive 40% of the government's budget and required many bonds to slave owners to effectuate the law.
  — Matthew Brown, USA TODAY, 1 July 2020
• He's committed to helping athletes take the next steps to effectuate change.
  — Rob Maaddi, Star Tribune, 27 Aug. 2020
• The president has even had to be coached to effectuate simple human feelings.
  — Jim Nelson, GQ, 21 May 2018
• But the groundwork is still being laid to effectuate real change, Hedden-Nicely said.
  — Susan Montoya Bryan and Felicia Fonseca, Chron, 3 Apr. 2022
• They were called into duty as extra personnel to effectuate the service of the search warrant.
  — Ben Tobin, The Courier-Journal, 23 Sep. 2020
• All the while, black people are harmed, but the people who effectuated that harm have no accountability.
  — Preston Mitchum, The Root, 8 May 2017
• The biggest thing is to have communication from the people that are effectuating it.
  — Sarah Ravani, SFChronicle.com, 28 June 2018
• The rule of law, as effectuated here and abroad, compels a prosecution against those who conspired to overthrow democracy in the United States.
  — Andrew Weissmann, Variety, 1 Mar. 2023
• But in order to actually effectuate the license, Treasury had to get approval from the State Department.
  — CBS News, 7 July 2021
• Allen cited that conversation as the catalyst to effectuate change for the greater good, by building the world’s biggest media company.
  — Essence, 26 June 2020
• This does not mean that all pregnant aliens will be detained; only those whose detention is necessary to effectuate removal, as well as those deemed a flight risk or danger to the community.
  — Jewel Wicker, Teen Vogue, 10 July 2018
• Finally, the appeals court said the Levitts presented evidence the bank failed to effectuate the transfer of titles to trailers the Levitts used in their business, resulting in the trailers being repossessed.
  — Ron Wood, Arkansas Online, 22 Sep. 2022
• The Senate Finance Committee, which will spearhead broad changes to the federal tax code to pay for the bill, is also looking at ways to use credits, deductions and a possible excise tax to effectuate a similar outcome.
  — New York Times, 6 Aug. 2021
• Baroni and Kelly were convicted of defrauding the Port Authority of money and property because time and labor was required to effectuate the lane realignment.
  — David Porter, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Sep. 2019
• Understanding the mechanisms—inevitable and otherwise—that effectuated that shift is an exercise Cohen leaves to the reader.
  — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 15 Feb. 2024
• Friday’s pledge by Florida lawmakers to effectuate change in our industry is welcome.
  — Adam Sabes, Fox News, 7 Apr. 2022
• Citing national trends — ones that are, in large part, the making of activists like herself — is a common line of argument deployed by activists to effectuate their deinstitutionalization agenda.
  — John Hirschauer, National Review, 18 Nov. 2019
• Tesla's conduct, effectuated through the Diversion Team, violated and breached its warranties.
  — Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 3 Aug. 2023
• On the contrary, true digital transformations encompass reevaluating current business processes and re-architecting them from the ground up to effectuate radical change.
  — Jonathan Cardella, Forbes, 2 May 2022
• Conduct pre-boarding screening necessary to effectuate these prevention measures.
  — Morgan Hines, USA TODAY, 4 Mar. 2020
• One lesson of the Trump administration is that having a real institutional infrastructure, something more than a network of anonymous Twitter accounts, is necessary to effectuate sweeping political change.
  — Theodore Kupfer, National Review, 14 Nov. 2019
• The statements also reveal President Trump’s intended means of effectuating the ban: by targeting majority-Muslim nations instead of Muslims explicitly.
  — Matt Ford, The Atlantic, 25 May 2017
• The commission has been using these administrative-review proceedings as a strategic tool to invalidate legitimate business transactions and effectuate a more invasive enforcement regime.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 4 Mar. 2022
• This decision allows the government to implement regulations effectuating longstanding federal law that newcomers to this country must be financially self-sufficient.
  — Michelle Hackman, WSJ, 27 Jan. 2020

Last Updated: 22 Dec 2024