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Adjective
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There’s irony here because the solution, for the most part, is not quantum-based, but rather preparation for a time when future quantum computers may make current encryption such as RSA and ECC ineffective.—
Dr. Jonathan Reichental,
Forbes.com,
13 June 2026 -
These proposals recognize that leaving decisions about adapting houses located in vulnerable areas up to individual homeowners is ineffective.—
The Conversation,
Fortune,
12 June 2026
Adjective
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Without constant reinforcement, these muscles will atrophy, and when real tyranny arrives, the flabby citizen will be powerless to resist.—
Graeme Wood,
The Atlantic,
24 Apr. 2026
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Looking to get rid of love handles or flabby thighs?—
Cindy Krischer Goodman,
Sun Sentinel,
5 Mar. 2026
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The cops of wherever this is are ineffectual.—
Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
11 June 2026
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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.—
Rob Wolfe,
The Atlantic,
5 June 2026
Adjective
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But his father contracted pneumonia in 2011, and after two decades in prison, his body was too weak to fight it.—
Yumi Asada,
CNN Money,
13 June 2026
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That gap is where signal blindness, misalignment, bottlenecks, execution delays and weak learning loops quietly convert external change into our fragilities.—
Christopher Washington,
Forbes.com,
12 June 2026
Adjective
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Her parents comply with the new order, powerless in the face of big tech.—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
16 June 2026
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How would a shy, relatively powerless teenager see this powerful, young super-woman out there changing the world?—
Nick Romano,
Entertainment Weekly,
15 June 2026
Adjective
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Once everyone in the ballroom feels tiny and flaccid, there’s really no point in fighting.—
Dahlia Gallin Ramirez,
New Yorker,
9 June 2026
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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.—
Jason P. Frank,
Vulture,
21 May 2026
Adjective
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Treatment wiped out the cancer, but Lucy's weakened body had another ailment, one that stopped her from making stem cells, blood or platelets.—
Siafa Lewis,
CBS News,
17 June 2026
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Children, people older than 65 and those with weakened immune systems can develop severe infections.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
15 June 2026
Adjective
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There is no end to the impotent convulsions of an empire in decline.—
Wyatt Williams,
Harpers Magazine,
9 June 2026
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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.—
Louis Menand,
New Yorker,
1 June 2026
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“Forceless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/forceless. Accessed 18 Jun. 2026.
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