as in ineffective
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Conventional interventions have been largely ineffective, suggesting a rate increase may be the strongest tool left for policymakers to stabilize the won.
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While some viral health trends are harmless—or simply ineffective—others can put your health at serious risk.
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Earlier suitors were sometimes flabby; the crew was not always in tip-top shape.
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Yet this is no flabby Stephen King retread: Fans were excited to visit the world beyond the cosmic monster, and the 1962-set show is a visual wonder.
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The cops of wherever this is are ineffectual.
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Twentieth-century historians tended to paint the senator as an ineffectual hothead, but Tameez maintains that Sumner’s in-your-face style helped shock a complacent nation into action.
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But lingering high ticket prices combined with weaker teams might mean sparse attendance.
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Tokyo wants to appear to be fighting a weak yen, while welcoming it in private.
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Her parents comply with the new order, powerless in the face of big tech.
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How would a shy, relatively powerless teenager see this powerful, young super-woman out there changing the world?
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Once everyone in the ballroom feels tiny and flaccid, there’s really no point in fighting.
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The Survivor 50 finale went exactly as expected: Aubry Bracco won the game, Joe Hunter gave another flaccid Final Tribal Council, and the live audience cheered for Cirie Fields.
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Listeria is an organism that can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, or others with weakened immune systems.
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Though minor gastrointestinal discomfort is the most common symptom of exposure, pathogens that may cause only minor sickness in some people may cause serious conditions or death in the very young, old, or those with weakened immune systems.
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There is no end to the impotent convulsions of an empire in decline.
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Connie is married to a baronet, Clifford, who has been made impotent by a war wound, and Mellors is the gamekeeper on Clifford’s estate, Wragby.
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“Forceless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/forceless. Accessed 25 Jun. 2026.
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