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The phrase "are effectively left" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where individuals or groups are abandoned or not given the necessary support or resources.
Example: "In the current economic climate, many small businesses are effectively left to fend for themselves without government assistance."
Alternatives: "are essentially abandoned" or "are practically neglected".
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are effectively left
adverb
In an efficient or effective manner; with powerful effect.
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The labs are effectively left to police themselves.
As a consequence, those who do not place themselves within the binary (e.g., genderqueer people) are effectively left out, despite the original intention behind transgender as an inclusive umbrella term.
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And they are concerned that such a long time took place, and four days were effectively left without any investigation".
"But clearly there were not grounds to proceed and clearly justice was not given to these two people who were effectively left to hang out to dry.
For example, they would sometimes call an impromptu meeting when no interpreter was available, which meant I was effectively left out.
Overall responsibility tended to be shared with a more senior minister, but Lewis was effectively left to get on with it.
The Catholic Monarchs revoked usurpations of land and revenues by the nobility if these had occurred since 1464, but most of the great noble estates had been built up before that date and were effectively left intact.
Conservative MP Tim Loughton told BBC Radio: "Clearly there were not grounds to proceed and clearly justice was not given to these two people who were effectively left to hang out to dry.
The FCC was effectively left without rules to govern the internet in January after a court defeat in a case against Verizon, which challenged the agency's powers to regulate the web.
Ian Rintoul, spokesman for the Refugee Action Coalition, told the BBC he had spoken to some of the asylum seekers in the centre, and that they felt they were "effectively left in limbo and confined to Manus Island or PNG".
Due to continuing seismic activity and the assumption that most buildings have been damaged and weakened, much of the population in the affected areas, which had a total population of up to 600,000 – almost half of them children – was effectively left homeless.
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