Montana and several other states have recently adopted laws to prevent intoxication from being used, in effect, as an excuse for a crime.

Instead of spending heavily on advertising, Starbucks uses its stores to promote itself - in effect, turning each store into a kind of billboard.

Unlike other mutual funds, mortgage funds use forms of leverage, in effect, borrowing money to have a bigger portfolio.

Here the term "Dymaxion" is used in effect to signify a "radically strong and light tensegrity structure".

Not using this feature in effect defeats the purpose of the software.

The researchers used various experiments to measure psychological characteristics, in effect quantifying those drives.

The asylum was used, in effect, as a boarding school.

In Cavendish's time, physicists used the same units for mass and weight, in effect taking as a standard acceleration.

But you can also use your laptop or even desktop as a base station, in effect, and that's called an ad hoc network.

Such programs can be used to provide, in effect, insurance that only comes into play in otherwise "bad" years.