ineffective
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"Environmental impact assessments and oversight mechanisms are now completely ineffective," he told AFP.
From Barron's • May 15, 2026
So lethal in the team’s first-round win over Edmonton and so ineffective in the first three games of this series, the power play finally clicked, with Beckett Sennecke and Alex Killorn scoring on the man-advantage.
From Los Angeles Times • May 11, 2026
Each new prescription generates a billable visit, while tapering a patient off an ineffective drug takes time, monitoring and follow-up, which the billing system frequently doesn’t reimburse.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 10, 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
For me, nonviolence was not a moral principle but a strategy; there is no moral goodness in using an ineffective weapon.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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Vocabulary lists containing ineffective
Florida's B.E.S.T. Common Prefixes: in-, im-, il-, ir-
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