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Adjective
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Knoepfler also notes that the same substance that's helpful at one dose might be ineffective or even harmful at another dose.—
Sarah Boden,
NPR,
23 Feb. 2026 -
Using on frozen or too-wet soil will be ineffective, and applying too late allows weeds to germinate.—
Nishaa Sharma,
The Spruce,
22 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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The flabby sack of veined flesh swaying testicularly from the bottom of the ship could be the cargo hold.—
Jeff Spry,
Space.com,
30 Jan. 2026
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The mattress first, a mattress from time immemorial that proved to be unbelievably heavy, flabby, and seemingly filled with sand.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
19 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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An evil global cabal, an ineffectual justice system, the exercise of unchecked power by untrustworthy experts—these are familiar themes.—
Joshua Rothman,
New Yorker,
24 Feb. 2026
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Besson takes real liberties with Stoker’s original saga too, hinting at a purposeful attempt to reframe Dracula as a sly romantic hero that winds up looking like just another ineffectual vampire movie instead.—
Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
6 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Taking new measurements, the researchers saw that as fluid gushed between cells, creating indentations in their cell membranes, bubbles mostly bulged into weaker cells.—
Clare Watson,
Quanta Magazine,
27 Feb. 2026
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Trump suggested in the aftermath of that raid that military action in Cuba might not be necessary because the island’s economy was weak enough — particularly in the absence of oil shipments from Venezuela that stopped after Maduro was taken into custody — to soon collapse on its own.—
Will Weissert,
Los Angeles Times,
27 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Why Grant Williams sat After starting at power forward in Thursday’s loss, Grant Williams was on the bench in street clothes and powerless to do anything to help stifle the Cavs’ size on the interior.—
Roderick Boone,
Charlotte Observer,
21 Feb. 2026
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For all their efforts to convene well-meaning elites, the organizers of the Paris Peace Congress remained powerless to stop the relentless logic of an arms race playing out outside their control.—
Billy Perrigo,
Time,
17 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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How could an offense that tore up its final two opponents on the way to a Super Bowl victory a year ago and returned 10 of 11 starters have been so flaccid in 2025?—
Michael Silver,
New York Times,
16 Jan. 2026
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The city also predictably lost its Voter ID lawsuit after the court rebuked its flaccid charter-city arguments in the face of state election law.—
Steven Greenhut,
Oc Register,
2 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Infants and children under 5 years old, pregnant women and people with weakened immune symptoms are most at risk for complications from measles.—
Alexandra Simon,
CBS News,
24 Feb. 2026
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The illness can be dangerous or life-threatening, particularly to older adults, those with weakened immune systems and pregnant women.—
Fernando Cervantes Jr,
USA Today,
17 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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But this is the first time in recent memory in which the will of the majority feels both irrelevant and totally impotent.—
Jay Caspian Kang,
New Yorker,
13 Jan. 2026
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Adding Venezuela — not a major producer today, but one with the potential to raise output by 2 million to 3 million barrels a day within a decade — would give the US the power to make OPEC+’s supply interventions impotent.—
Mohammed Sergie,
semafor.com,
6 Jan. 2026
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“Forceless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/forceless. Accessed 3 Mar. 2026.
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