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That January, it was the most inefficiently run organization I had ever seen.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

Altfest favors buying individual municipal bonds versus funds for clients because the muni bond market tends to be inefficiently priced, offering smart investors opportunities to get good deals.

From Barron's ● Nov. 25, 2025

Our gas boilers are the main culprit; lots of individual devices inefficiently burning fossil fuels to create the heat.

From BBC ● Mar. 11, 2025

But for the first time, researchers reported in May and July that it spread inefficiently through the air between a few laboratory ferrets kept inches apart.

From Salon ● Aug. 2, 2024

The new laundry maid, Nivea, was using them up inefficiently, without a system.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez




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