inefficiently
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The risk is that valuations become inflated, competition narrows, and capital is allocated inefficiently.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 22, 2026
Venezuela possesses undeveloped rare-earth metal reserves, which have historically been inefficiently tapped.
From Barron's ● Jan. 5, 2026
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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