ineffective
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I generally think of mood boards and visualization as ineffective or a bit “woo-woo,” but research suggests that imagining yourself older can increase your retirement savings.
From MarketWatch • May 30, 2026
Capybara removals tend to be ineffective, Ibama, the environmental agency, wrote to me in an email, “since environmentally favorable areas are usually quickly reoccupied.”
From Slate • May 27, 2026
Many states and big social-media companies already have such bans, but critics say they are ineffective and don’t have adequate punishments.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026
"My democratic right to vote has been taken away from me by a quite obviously ineffective process," he said.
From BBC • May 5, 2026
At present our understanding is meager—probably because disarmament budgets have, since the time of Sargon of Akkad, been somewhere between ineffective and nonexistent.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
Vocabulary lists containing ineffective
Florida's B.E.S.T. Common Prefixes: in-, im-, il-, ir-
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