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My candidates for a mercy verbicide: pivot, tank, cave, pushback, gravitas, message, game-changer, challenges, the entire litany of Palinesque nouns, attack dog, battleground, pork-barrel, earmark, impacting , and impactful.
Hollywood is mulling the impact of a small yet impactful number of job losses recently felt at DreamWorks, Steven Spielberg's studio.
Their influence in Paris would be more impactful and more lasting than trying to convince a prepared and steadfast university endowment community to alter its ways.
The best leaders will make an impactful first impression with a wholly authentic voice, and starting this process as a graduate or early in your career can do no harm at all.
"When problems do arise, let's deal with them in the most effective way we can and instead use the privileged platform enjoyed by those in public life to highlight the unique attractions of the BBC and help ensure it is as healthy, vibrant, impactful and creative in its 2022 centenary year as it has ever been.
Meanwhile, factors like the negative wealth effect of housing and asset price declines are hugely impactful , and it's likely that a stimulus that saves jobs through government spending and provides tax rebates to struggling households will be quite helpful on this account.And again we have Mr Cowen's sectoral shift story.
The text is also thick with such phrases as "suboptimal noncooperative outcomes" and "systematically impactful".
Focus on the size of the markets rather than the size of the firms or the factories, and you begin to see the internet economy in a somewhat different light.Then there is a fourth point, which is that the jobs of the internet economy are more impactful at the local level than is manufacturing work.
As it covers the happenings before, during, and after a Christmas party in Dublin, Joyce, through his unique talent, drops subtle clues that lead to an impactful internal epiphany by Gabriel Conroy, the protagonist, about his wife, Gretta.
The gestures are spare and impactful : a sudden rush of feet, an ecstatic spiral of gold glitter in the air, lengths of wet foliage birthed from the sleeves of Bluebeard's suit by his greedy, impulsive wife, a steady trickle of tears, a volcanic cloud of vapour, a bright flower of blood on a white shirt, a slow dance of body doubles, man and wife.
Woody Allen says that there might be an "ironic truth" to the term "tears of clowns", although maintains depression is no less impactful than for those without a comedic reputation.
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The adjective "impactful" primarily functions to describe a noun by emphasizing the significant effect or influence it possesses . It modifies nouns to highlight their power to make a noticeable difference. Ludwig's examples show it applied to various subjects, underscoring its versatile usage.
Expression frequency: Very common
