ineffectuality

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for ineffectuality
Noun
  • 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
Noun
  • 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
  • The solution is to test AI agents thoroughly to identify any inefficacies.
    Theo Schnitfink, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Her recommendation is not to fight or try to control their inability to sit still and be quiet.
    ​Wendy Wisner, Parents, 24 June 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • And therein lies a sense of impotence, because our ability to discern the consequential ghoulishness of this nation’s policies–LOL that’s crazy!–doesn’t in and of itself constitute resistance.
    Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2025
  • On the same day that Trump regaled the more boisterous crowd just across the river at CPAC with his tales of political retribution, several hundred activists and insiders gathered in downtown D.C. to make sense of their current impotence.
    Philip Elliott, TIME, 24 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • But Oakland residents who have dealt with decades of incompetence at City Hall shouldn’t have their hopes up.
    U T Editorial Board, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 June 2025
  • Meanwhile, the pissy, frustrated lawman (Kenneth Tobey) trying to coordinate the manhunt has to deal with abject incompetence and mind-boggling bureaucracy, as well as his own desire to relive his youth.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 27 June 2025
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“Ineffectuality.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ineffectuality. Accessed 7 Jul. 2025.

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