effectiveness
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According to media reports, the study used hospital patients’ vaccination status to calculate the success of the season’s vaccine, a method long used to determine flu vaccine effectiveness.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2026
“Skepticism remains over the effectiveness of the cease-fire agreement, leaving the market wary. Any headlines suggesting continued combat could easily trigger another round of dollar buying,” Morimoto says.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026
It claimed "stopping full-time pay for part-time work... could increase capacity and the effectiveness of current staff and allow for headcount reduction", which would "save around £270,000".
From BBC • Apr. 9, 2026
They can also be engineered to carry multiple components, increasing their potential effectiveness.
From Science Daily • Apr. 2, 2026
The psychologist Nalini Ambady once gave students three ten-second videotapes of a teacher—with the sound turned off—and found they had no difficulty at all coming up with a rating of the teacher’s effectiveness.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
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