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Recent Examples of inefficiently
One counterintuitive way of using that space would be to spend it inefficiently, attempting to win a free agent’s services via a short-term overpayment.
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Murat Ates,
New York Times,
25 May 2026
When Wagner was healthy in the first four games, Cunningham was still getting his points, but getting them inefficiently, struggling to find rhythm against Wagner’s length and discipline.
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Mike Bianchi,
The Orlando Sentinel,
4 May 2026
Hundreds of millions of dollars earmarked for homelessness remain unspent or inefficiently deployed.
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Teresa Liu,
Daily News,
4 May 2026
In response, though, Weiss Ortiz argued in a motion that the decision to sever the cases does the opposite — inefficiently creating two duplicative trials with overlapping evidence and witnesses.
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Madeline Buckley,
Chicago Tribune,
3 May 2026
That’s understandable in the past, when the market operated adequately if inefficiently.
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The Editorial Board,
Oc Register,
26 Apr. 2026
Lower per-unit prices do not translate into lower total cost if utilization expands inefficiently or without appropriate indication.
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Sreedhar Potarazu,
Baltimore Sun,
7 Feb. 2026
However, in real use, their performance falls short because sulfur and its intermediate compounds, called polysulfides, react too slowly and inefficiently.
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Jijo Malayil,
Interesting Engineering,
9 Jan. 2026
Yet for years, the massive amount of data linked to its operations was handled manually and inefficiently.
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Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez,
Fortune,
15 Oct. 2025
Murat Ates,
New York Times,
25 May 2026
When Wagner was healthy in the first four games, Cunningham was still getting his points, but getting them inefficiently, struggling to find rhythm against Wagner’s length and discipline.
—
Mike Bianchi,
The Orlando Sentinel,
4 May 2026
Hundreds of millions of dollars earmarked for homelessness remain unspent or inefficiently deployed.
—
Teresa Liu,
Daily News,
4 May 2026
In response, though, Weiss Ortiz argued in a motion that the decision to sever the cases does the opposite — inefficiently creating two duplicative trials with overlapping evidence and witnesses.
—
Madeline Buckley,
Chicago Tribune,
3 May 2026
That’s understandable in the past, when the market operated adequately if inefficiently.
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The Editorial Board,
Oc Register,
26 Apr. 2026
Lower per-unit prices do not translate into lower total cost if utilization expands inefficiently or without appropriate indication.
—
Sreedhar Potarazu,
Baltimore Sun,
7 Feb. 2026
However, in real use, their performance falls short because sulfur and its intermediate compounds, called polysulfides, react too slowly and inefficiently.
—
Jijo Malayil,
Interesting Engineering,
9 Jan. 2026
Yet for years, the massive amount of data linked to its operations was handled manually and inefficiently.
—
Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez,
Fortune,
15 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for inefficiently
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Secondly, they were very poorly promoted.
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Another reason some people respond poorly to GLP-1 drugs is because of their genetic makeup.
Adverb
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The collapse of the Constitution’s balance of powers between three branches of government got us into an unneeded war conducted ineptly.
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Dancing the Poznan really ineptly, mind you, but dancing nonetheless.
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As was mentioned in your editorial, the Broward school district has been incompetently managed, wasteful and corrupt for years.
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The information the city provided to win passage of a ballot measure in 2022 allowing this fee was incompetently inaccurate.
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“Inefficiently.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inefficiently. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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