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ineffectuality

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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
  • Economies rotted under the weight of crony capitalism or the various lies, cheats, and inefficiencies of socialism, unless temporarily sustained by external aid (Cuba) or oil (Iraq, Libya, Iran).
    Eliot A. Cohen, The Atlantic, 4 Jan. 2026
  • Ultimately, however, the inherent inefficiencies of combustion will likely always remain an issue.
    Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 4 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
  • Russia and China, though chastened by their inability to protect Venezuela, retain a strong interest in propping up Havana, given Cuba’s location just 90 miles south of Key West.
    Vivian Salama, The Atlantic, 11 Jan. 2026
  • Forster’s novel may have been written in 1913 (and published, posthumously, in 1971), but its portrayal of Alec and Maurice’s inability to openly articulate their love remains evergreen.
    Naomi Fry, New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2026
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 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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“Ineffectuality.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ineffectuality. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.

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