ineffectiveness

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Recent Examples of ineffectiveness Mike Vrabel has blamed his squad’s ground ineffectiveness on his RB stable being too ball-security focused. Brad Evans, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025 The evidence of its ineffectiveness and risks has led 23 states to pass legislation banning or limiting the use of conversion therapy for minors. Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 7 Oct. 2025 Even McDaniel, speaking about the run defense’s ineffectiveness, appeared fed up. Miami Herald, 6 Oct. 2025 Despite the offense’s ineffectiveness Friday, TCU’s defense kept the Horned Frogs afloat with countless stops deep in their own territory — like when linebacker Kaleb Elarms-Orr broke up a would-be touchdown in the second half. Steven Johnson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 Sep. 2025 Previous attempts to produce HBL sustainably achieved only limited success due to safety issues, ineffectiveness or a lack of cost-efficiency, according to the study team. Hannah Millington, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Sep. 2025 There are glimpses of improvement that are quickly overshadowed by long bouts of ineffectiveness. Troy Renck, Denver Post, 11 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ineffectiveness
Noun
  • Drinkwitz pointed to third-down inefficiency as the root cause of last week’s offensive stagnation.
    Zach Sweet, Kansas City Star, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The 49ers have had to rely far too much on Christian McCaffrey so far this season, which has led to inefficiencies on the ground as teams key in on the star running back.
    Ben Verbrugge, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Brands that rely solely on AI risk not just irrelevance, but inefficacy.
    Sean DallasKidd, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • But as the labor ministry’s inability to engage with shows, the state can do only so much.
    Ladan Anoushfar, CNN Money, 18 Oct. 2025
  • The issue was his lack of consistency and his inability to limit hard contact.
    Sahadev Sharma, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The agents at Slough House are renowned for the incompetence that landed them there, but there have been, of course, plenty of times when their instincts are sound, their actions are noble, and they’re wildly underestimated, just like their flatulent boss.
    Scott Tobias, Vulture, 15 Oct. 2025
  • That was straight Nathaniel Hackett level incompetence.
    Joe Nguyen, Denver Post, 12 Oct. 2025

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“Ineffectiveness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ineffectiveness. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.

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