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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a pivotal effect" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an effect that is crucial or central to a particular situation or outcome.
Example: "The new policy had a pivotal effect on the company's overall performance, leading to significant improvements in productivity."
Alternatives: "a crucial impact" or "a central influence."
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As elections have been shown to improve public officials' performance via accountability, appropriate use of elections is expected to have a pivotal effect on a municipality, ultimately impacting the operating effectiveness of the internal control system.
But what never changes is the impact of loss: and Tom's loss, Rachel believes, had a pivotal effect on her father, Frank, who was 10 when his father died.
Here the disastrous overreach and shortfall of American power in Iraq had a pivotal effect.
The possible mechanism is that ethanol has a pivotal effect on controlling the degree of self-polymerization of pyrrole monomers and the morphology of polymer film on MWCNTs surface by restraining the polymerization reaction rate.
Tony's message had a pivotal effect on the path of my career.
In this study, it was demonstrated that cathepsin L has a pivotal effect at the upstream of granzyme B on cytotoxicity of CD8+ T cells in the development of T1D other than the maintenance of Treg cells in the periphery and the thymic selection.
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It was a pivotal event.
When the opposition movement began gathering strength in Poland in the 1970's and 80's, Mr. Kolakowski's writings had a pivotal ideological effect on those in Poland and a galvanizing effect on those outside the country, particularly after martial law was imposed in 1981.
Perhaps putting faces to the horrifying number of young men and women who have lost their lives will have the same pivotal effect as a 1969 issue of Life magazine had.
Soot has a pivotal extra effect, too: it settles on glaciers and other areas of ice, darkening their surface and increasing the rate at which they melt.
You see it monthly in the yields per passenger-seat mile, a pivotal wealth effect statistic.
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