ineffectualness

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Noun
  • Goff pointed to ineffectiveness on first down in the second half, forcing the offensive line into situations where Los Angeles could turn to its powerful pass rush.
    CBS News, CBS News, 15 Dec. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • Subsequent audits have found that the program, which cost more than eight hundred billion dollars, was riddled with inefficiency and fraud.
    Dexter Filkins, New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2026
  • Arnold set the tone for the second quarter with a steal-and-score in the opening seconds, and while UConn’s offense still hadn’t found its rhythm, the defensive effort neutralized any inefficiencies.
    Emily Adams, Hartford Courant, 11 Jan. 2026
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
  • Both stated that the caller had spoken to a doctor about a curable virus that could cause impotence if not treated.
    Bart Jansen, USA Today, 19 Dec. 2025
  • The new procedures that will have AI determine their prior authorization decisions include nerve stimulation, steroid injections for pain management, cervical fusion, knee surgery, impotence treatment and some skin substitutes.
    Suzanne Blake, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • In 1949, a grand jury convened to discuss the inability of the LAPD’s homicide unit to solve murders, during which Short’s death was further investigated.
    Alex Gurley, PEOPLE, 15 Jan. 2026
  • Sensabaugh sensation One direct byproduct of the Bulls’ inability to defend the point of attack is the possibility in any game for a relatively unknown player to rip off an ungodly amount of points.
    Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 15 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • In 2022, DeSantis suspended four Democratic members of the School Board and replaced them with Republicans after a statewide grand jury found incompetence, neglect of duty and misuse of authority.
    Anthony Man, Sun Sentinel, 12 Jan. 2026
  • History suggests that the proficient cruelty of such regimes is unable to compensate for the stupidity and incompetence of their cadres.
    Elizabeth Tsurkov, The Atlantic, 11 Jan. 2026
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“Ineffectualness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ineffectualness. Accessed 18 Jan. 2026.

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