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Noun
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Streamlining internal processes and eliminating operational inefficiencies will help improve productivity.—
Rohit Arora,
Forbes.com,
20 Aug. 2025 -
The Brewers are an outlier, exploiting a new market inefficiency – knowing how to play baseball.—
Ken Rosenthal,
New York Times,
18 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
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The solution is to test AI agents thoroughly to identify any inefficacies.—
Theo Schnitfink,
Forbes.com,
27 Mar. 2025
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And many insurance providers still define infertility as the inability to conceive after a year of trying, rather than the inability to conceive without medical intervention.—
Faith Hill,
The Atlantic,
19 Aug. 2025
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Facing ethical dilemmas, an inability to monitor labor conditions, and mounting sustainability concerns, many brands and retailers have withdrawn from Myanmar since the coup, including H&M, Primark, Inditex, Fast Retailing, Tchibo and Marks & Spencer.—
Mayu Saini,
Sourcing Journal,
18 Aug. 2025
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The board meeting, including the line of people so eager to praise Battle and silence her critics, was all so hard to watch, and not just because of the egregious display of incompetence by whomever concocted such a terrible plan.—
Andrea Williams,
Nashville Tennessean,
15 Aug. 2025
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Secondly, and speaking of incompetence, Antoni is wholly unqualified.—
S.E. Cupp,
New York Daily News,
14 Aug. 2025
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“Ineffectiveness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ineffectiveness. Accessed 27 Aug. 2025.
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