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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

He justified the approach by pointing to the inefficacy of other methods and asserting that there was “an intimate connection between the story of the patient’s sufferings and the symptoms of his illness.”

From The New Yorker May 20, 2019

Mercifully, banner ads are in decline, due less to their ugliness than their inefficacy: Readers quickly learned to ignore them.

From Slate Jun. 16, 2015

These men are all engaged in organizing the workingmen's vote with extraordinary efficacy in Europe, and with extraordinary inefficacy in the United States.

From Twentieth Century Socialism What It Is Not; What It Is: How It May Come by Edmond Kelly




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