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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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Without constant reinforcement, these muscles will atrophy, and when real tyranny arrives, the flabby citizen will be powerless to resist.
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In Australia, a similar ban has proven almost totally ineffectual.
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The cops of wherever this is are ineffectual.
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Following a year of historically weak hiring in 2025, hiring rebounded this spring.
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In a weak free-agency class, centers Robert Williams III (Portland) and Mark Williams (Phoenix) are already off the market, each reportedly agreeing to return to their current teams.
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There is no coach more powerless than the college basketball coach.
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Many people feel powerless at work, especially when dealing with managers, write-ups, or fear of losing their jobs.
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Once everyone in the ballroom feels tiny and flaccid, there’s really no point in fighting.
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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?
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And while Creger still thought the bill was positive, she was disappointed to see the weakened language around adding lanes to highways.
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The weakened plants are more susceptible to insects and disease pests.
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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 2 Jul. 2026.
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