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Noun
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This resource-aware orchestration prevents inefficiencies and optimizes performance.—
Tyler Shepherd,
USA TODAY,
21 Feb. 2025 -
For cities facing gridlock and transit inefficiencies, Glydways offers an intriguing question: What if public transit didn’t have to mean waiting, stopping, or sharing space with strangers?—
Tony Bradley,
Forbes,
21 Feb. 2025
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And with Trump poised to take office again, the industry is perhaps rattled by the inefficacy of its previous calls to action—or at least lacks a vision of how to meet the political moment through either art or activism.—
Hannah Giorgis,
The Atlantic,
6 Jan. 2025
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The work is less a critique of AA’s methods than a wry commentary on art and art history’s inefficacy in remedying profound societal ills, especially those affecting Indigenous communities.—
Michaëla de Lacaze Mohrmann,
Artforum,
1 Jan. 2025
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The local government’s impotence reflects a broader dynamic in Iraq: Baghdad’s reliance on Shiite militias has allowed those groups to gain undue power.—
Vera Mironova,
Foreign Affairs,
3 Nov. 2016
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The League of Nations, bereft of U.S. support, languished into impotence, and only in the aftermath of World War II did the United States begin to approximate Wilson’s vision of a Pax Americana.—
Richard Menger MD MPA,
Forbes,
13 Jan. 2025
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The Panthers understood that liberation and empowerment could only come through communal love focused on helping one’s neighbors and building up one’s community, even though their inability to live up to their ideals ultimately limited some of the group’s potential.—
Mickell Carter / Made by History,
TIME,
19 Feb. 2025
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But they have been slowed by the COVID pandemic, cost increases due to inflation, permitting delays and other problems, including the inability of local water agencies sponsoring them to come up with all of the matching funds.—
Paul Rogers,
The Mercury News,
19 Feb. 2025
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There will also, no doubt, be a search for efficiency savings, and efforts to root out what Mr. Trump has called incompetence and corruption.—
Ned Temko,
The Christian Science Monitor,
13 Feb. 2025
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Trump’s approval rating never surpassed 50 percent during his first term, and a combination of incompetence, overreach, unpopular policies, and partisan polarization will likely limit his support during his second.—
STEVEN LEVITSKY,
Foreign Affairs,
11 Feb. 2025
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“Ineffectualness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ineffectualness. Accessed 1 Mar. 2025.
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