as in inefficiency
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Recent Examples of ineffectiveness
He's played just 15 of 32 games and suffered multiple injuries and been benched for ineffectiveness multiple times.
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Michael Gallagher, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Aug. 2025
Michael Gallagher, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ineffectiveness
Noun
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The company’s legacy system hadn’t been upgraded in 16 years, resulting in inefficiency and manual processes.—
Brian Wasson,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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Manning’s inefficiency was on full display, and the Longhorns faithful grew tired of it during the first half.—
Ryan Gaydos,
FOXNews.com,
14 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Brands that rely solely on AI risk not just irrelevance, but inefficacy.—
Sean DallasKidd,
Forbes.com,
27 Aug. 2025
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As research highlighted the inefficacy and unintended consequences of these laws, states rolled them back or modified them, mostly by partially repealing them or reducing the severity of mandatory sentences.—
John Leverso,
The Conversation,
26 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Overuse of the members of Generation K — Jason Isringhausen, Bill Pulsipher and Paul Wilson — during their rookie seasons is often blamed for the trio’s inability to stay healthy and effective.—
Jerry Beach,
Forbes.com,
13 Sep. 2025
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Roberts pointed to the Dodgers’ inability to support Yamamoto with more than one run against 42-year-old Justin Verlander – on a solo home run by Michael Conforto in the seventh inning – as part of the problem.—
Bill Plunkett,
Oc Register,
13 Sep. 2025
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Many of the deaths were preventable and due to a combination of staff incompetence and cruel indifference.—
U T Editorial Board,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
12 Sep. 2025
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This is incompetence and there should be consequences for judges who make our society less safe.—
Amanda Castro
Hannah Parry,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Sep. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Ineffectiveness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ineffectiveness. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.
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