ineffectualness

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Noun
  • Makarim, who was education minister between 2019 and 2024, allegedly favored Google’s Chromebook despite a ministry research team refusing to recommend the laptop model due to ineffectiveness in regions lacking internet access.
    ABC News, ABC News, 20 Apr. 2026
  • Sonic devices and toxic baits are not recommended due to ineffectiveness and potential harm to other animals.
    Arricca Elin SanSone, Southern Living, 19 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • If this is the true face of the AI industry—a technological triumphalism that sees human thought as an inefficiency to overcome and human distinctiveness as a myth to debunk—the differences between the Church and Silicon Valley may prove irreconcilable.
    Elias Wachtel, The Atlantic, 25 Apr. 2026
  • Education veterans told me that the department certainly has bloat and inefficiencies.
    Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Caroline’s anguish and her ineffectuality at making progress in finding Gabriel make for some frustrating moments as a reader.
    John Warner, Chicago Tribune, 7 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • The impunity of the powerful was measured by the inefficacy of the outraged.
    Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2026
  • When on day five of his mayoralty Zohran Mamdani acknowledged the inefficacy of homeless sweeps and avowed to end them, street homeless adults, advocates, and attorneys rejoiced.
    Deborah Berkman, New York Daily News, 24 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • But these songs are also honest, sometimes despite themselves, about the feelings of impotence associated with watching history play out on a screen.
    Mitch Therieau, New Yorker, 7 Feb. 2026
  • Those include epidural steroid injections for pain management, cervical fusion, diagnosis and treatment of impotence, and skin and tissue substitutes.
    Jillian Taylor, StateImpact, 16 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • The inability to access basic necessities is their greatest concern.
    CNN Staff, CNN Money, 23 Apr. 2026
  • The pain, the inability to sleep, causes the pain to be worse.
    Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 23 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The incompetence at every level worsens and only two incompetents have been removed.
    Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Trump’s complaints included accusations of impropriety and incompetence in Powell’s leadership of the renovation.
    David Goldman, CNN Money, 24 Apr. 2026
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“Ineffectualness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ineffectualness. Accessed 29 Apr. 2026.

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