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efficient

[ih-fish-uhnt] / ɪˈfɪʃ ənt /


Usage

What are other ways to say efficient? The adjective efficient, when applied to a person or a thing, implies the skillful use of energy or industry to accomplish desired results with little waste of effort: efficient methods; an efficient manager. Effective is applied to a person or a thing that has the power to, or which actually does, produce an effect: an effective boss, remedy, speech. Effectual is used especially of that which produces the effect desired or intended, or a decisive result: An effectual bombardment silenced the enemy. Efficacious suggests the capability of achieving a certain end: an efficacious plan, medicine. 

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In an efficient seven scoreless innings, Skubal threw just 75 pitches.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2026

The company is “helping their customers manage the frontier models in a more efficient and effective way” than other companies, Luria said.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026

ACM Smyth warned that without satellites, some of the technologies people take for granted would be lost and would make every sector "less efficient, less prosperous and less secure".

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

Scientists compare the idea to a canary in a coal mine, because changes there may offer an efficient way to detect broader shifts in the climate regulating circulation.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026

The student was cheerful and efficient and enjoyed Beat poetry.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris




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