Effect
Work at
Work at verb - To exert effort in order to do, make, or perform something.
Mutual synonyms
Both terms in one sentence
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Most of them have one or more specials affect the field in some way, and others that rely on said effect to work at full ability.
Source: Video Game / Rivals Of Aether - Subverted in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air when Carlton says they're falling into "the domino effect", and foresees a chain of events that will end with (paraphrasing) "Dad getting fired and all of us having to work at Domino's to make a living".
Source: Disaster Dominoes - It applies to all Unforgivable curses, as their user has to desire to hurt others for them to work at all, and without pure malice (which is quite different from the righteous fury that Harry tried to channel into his Cruciatus against Bellatrix) their effect will be less than desired.
Source: Words Do Not Make The Magic
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