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efficacy

[ef-i-kuh-see] / ˈɛf ɪ kə si /


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These breaks are a welcome respite from long stretches of sitting and screen-based learning, which is common in some classrooms despite questions about its efficacy.

From Slate Sep. 5, 2026

No evidence of the instrument survives, however, and, the authors relate, contemporaneous reports of its efficacy are “vague.”

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 7, 2026

He added efficacy also depended on the scale of the intervention, and that controlling populations this way risked becoming a "forever enterprise."

From Barron's Aug. 7, 2026

"This reflects the efficacy of the oversight now explicit to these types of applications."

From BBC Jul. 30, 2026

Boaz, meanwhile, wielded the broom with surprising efficacy.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny

For the next pandemic, if we have certain vaccines with starting efficacies, we can predict the minimum proportion we need to vaccinate to achieve vaccine-induced herd immunity.

From Scientific American Apr. 6, 2023

That would make it still well above the 50% threshold needed for FDA authorization, but would pale in comparison to the 90-plus efficacies of other COVID-19 vaccines.

From Science Magazine Mar. 25, 2021

Further tests would be needed to judge how much the 2P mutation contributes to the overall efficacies of the frontrunner vaccines.

From National Geographic Dec. 31, 2020

Along these lines, computational studies have shown that ligands with different efficacies modulate the free-energy landscape of the receptor by shifting the conformational equilibrium towards active or inactive conformations depending on their elicited physiological response.

From Nature Feb. 13, 2013

He will inquire of art,—the empiric art,—and rude accident, what latent efficacies they have detected in her, what churlish secrets of hers they have wrung from her.

From The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded by Delia Bacon




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