Customer service representatives often perform affective labor to ensure callers feel heard and reassured.

After taking the new medication, I experienced a mild side-affect and decided to stop taking it.

The doctor warned about a possible side affect before starting the medication.

After his stroke, he was diagnosed with pseudobulbar affect, which caused uncontrollable episodes of laughing and crying that embarrassed him in public.

The ill-affected employees refused to cooperate with management after the layoffs.

Recent research has improved treatments for affective disorders, offering new hope to patients.

After months of extreme highs and debilitating lows, she was diagnosed with an affective disorder.

Researchers are integrating affective computing into mobile apps to enable devices to recognize and respond to users' emotions.

The historian noted that the affected equation, an obsolete mathematical term for a polynomial equation in two variables, appears in several 18th-century manuscripts.

Due to an error in the simulation, we had to revisit all affected equations before publishing the results.