This change has no impact in the system's current behaviour. Is the preposition in grammatical here? I think we should have used on instead: This change has no impact on the system's.

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Dec 22, 2018 · Nowadays, we often see the word impact being used as a verb. My question is, should it be always followed by the preposition on? Oxford Dictionaries gives the following. Sep 8, 2014 · Impact (early 17th century) comes from the past form of the same source.

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The use of Impact as a verb to indicate greater Effect seems to have come into use in the 1960s. I.

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