ineffectuality

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for ineffectuality
Noun
  • Scarcity, regulation and friction reveal inefficiencies others tolerate.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 20 June 2025
  • The layoffs and accusations of government inefficiency have, in some federal worker's eyes, led to a culture where the federal workforce is undervalued.
    Kate Plummer, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 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
  • Predicate orders are based on the abandonment, abuse or neglect of that child by one or both parents, and the inability to reunify with one or both parents, based on those findings.
    Taylor Romine, CNN Money, 18 June 2025
  • Fever head coach Stephanie White was upset with how the referees officiated the game and about the inability to take control.
    Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 18 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
  • 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
  • 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
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“Ineffectuality.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ineffectuality. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.

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