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inefficacy

[in-ef-i-kuh-see] / ɪnˈɛf ɪ kə si /


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The process is often triggered by post-approval studies showing inefficacy, according to Harvard Law professor I. Glenn Cohen.

From Reuters • Mar. 23, 2023

He seemed to think he could figure this out, make the kind of adjustment he has made so many times before in a career defined by his ability to stave off long stretches of inefficacy.

From Washington Post • Oct. 7, 2022

This extraordinary stylistic range stems from Graham’s wish to make a lavish formal show of her epistemological turbulence, her poems’ provisional victories over their own inefficacy.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 23, 2015

“Is it possible to escape the terrifying sandstorms of fear and anxiety?” she asked after we discussed the inefficacy of her antidepressant.

From New York Times • Mar. 6, 2014

Numerous were the complaints of the inefficacy of the measure for present relief, numerous the predictions of the ultimate impossibility of carrying it into effect.

From The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. I by Reeve, Henry




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