inefficacy
Example Sentences
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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
Given the general inefficacy of the judiciary committee, though, he might not have anything to fear by turning up this time around.
From Slate ● Feb. 14, 2020
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
The extreme depravity and disgusting nature of the scene; the inefficacy of acting to encourage or maintain the delusion.
From The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume I (of 2) by Florence A. Thomas Marshall
