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Noun
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Indications of inefficiency include high turnover within your portfolio, with many trades being placed that may potentially lead to a higher tax bill.—
Jonathan I. Shenkman,
Forbes.com,
1 July 2025 -
Internally, colleagues across departments provide key insights that challenge assumptions and reveal inefficiencies.—
Robert E. Siegel,
CNBC,
26 June 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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Her recommendation is not to fight or try to control their inability to sit still and be quiet.—
Wendy Wisner,
Parents,
24 June 2025
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Our inability to record these sweltering spells in a more conspicuous way is shared by the natural world, which rarely shows the marks of an episode of hot weather in any lasting way.—
Ross Andersen,
The Atlantic,
24 June 2025
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The resulting media circus of their incompetence distracts us from their behind-the-scenes actions that are fueling a growing health crisis impacting the very working-class communities that helped deliver Trump his second term.—
MSNBC Newsweek,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 July 2025
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Unlike paternalism — which presumes incompetence and justifies overriding someone’s autonomy — maternalism operates relationally, that is to say, it is rooted in relational awareness.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
26 June 2025
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“Ineffectiveness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ineffectiveness. Accessed 15 Jul. 2025.
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