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impact
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impact as in:  her impact on foreign policy

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    She is having a tremendous impact on the art world.
    impact = influence or effect
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    Harry's mouth fell open as the full impact of what he was seeing hit him.  (source)
    impact = effect
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    The pain, the impact of final rejection.  (source)
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    You must know that space in state homes is at a premium these days, and with budget cuts, every StaHo is impacted—ours included.  (source)
    impacted = affected
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    DRACO: Face it—his celebrity impacts upon you all.†  (source)
    impacts = influences or effects
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    Go to college, get a law degree, and then you'll be able to have a real impact.  (source)
    impact = influence or effect
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    Through the wisdom of estate planning, Uncle Dick has had a great legacy of impacting many needy children.†  (source)
    impacting = influencing or effecting
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    The cockpit canopy popped off, and I jumped free of the falling mech a split second before it impacted on the castle steps, killing several dozen of the avatars crowded there.†  (source)
    impacted = influenced or effected
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    Nearby crater impacts brought rocks and boulders.†  (source)
    impacts = influences or effects
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    His friend had told him it would make far more impact than him roaming from pillar to post.  (source)
    impact = impression or influence
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    I'm not sure I want to say it quite like that, but my mother, Sonya Carson, was the earliest, strongest, and most impacting force in my life.†  (source)
    impacting = influencing or effecting
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    With a crunch, the truck impacted the snowbank and then began climbing, bouncing up, making it feel like we were nearly falling backwards, and then the front of the truck angled down, tipping forward.†  (source)
    impacted = influenced or effected
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    He arched his back, putting all his weight on his feet, letting his shoes bear the brunt of the impacts.†  (source)
    impacts = influences or effects
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impact as in:  at the moment of impact

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The meteor impacted the moon.
impacted = collided with
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    She was killed instantly upon impact.
    impact = collision
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    The impact with the hard-packed earth of the plain knocks the wind out of me.  (source)
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    The impact makes the wound in my right shoulder burn like it got stuck with a hot poker.  (source)
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    The legs were still falling, and each impact pulled the dangling trunk further down.  (source)
    impact = collision (when two objects collide or crash)
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    All this happening against a background of continuous and violent upheaval, mountain ranges thrust up and eroded away, cometary impacts, volcanic eruptions, oceans rising and falling, whole continents moving….  (source)
    impacts = hits
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    The impact threw me backward into Our Lady.  (source)
    impact = force from an object hitting another
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    He landed faceup, so that his backpack absorbed the impact.  (source)
    impact = force of the collision
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    With each impact, the heavy steel wall hinges creaked, but they held.  (source)
    impact = hit
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    A pause …. and then the sound of an impact, a short, explosive breath, and a muttered word in a gruff, low voice.  (source)
    impact = collision (when an object hits another)
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    And just before it hit he should pull back on the wheel and slow the plane down to reduce the impact.  (source)
    impact = force from an object hitting another
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    "The police told me you were the one with him when it happened." ... I'm standing on a track, watching the train barrel toward me, and I tense up and wait for the impact, the moment she asks what happened.  (source)
    impact = hit
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    He was jerked half around by the impact of the bullets, then slowly crumpled with a look of grim triumph on his face.  (source)
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    I caught a steel cylinder full in the stomach. The impact knocked me to the ground.  (source)
    impact = force from an object hitting another
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