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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

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 proof which in the history of thought is offered again and again, be it noted, is not of the reality of life, but of the unreality and inefficacy of death.

From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Bode, Boyd H.




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