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adj.capable, effective

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The adjective efficient, when applied to a person or a thing, implies the skillful use of energy or industry to accomplish desired results with little waste of effort: efficient methods; an efficient manager. Effective is applied to a person or a thing that has the power to, or which actually does, produce an effect: an effective boss, remedy, speech. Effectual is used especially of that which produces the effect desired or intended, or a decisive result: An effectual bombardment silenced the enemy. Efficacious suggests the capability of achieving a certain end: an efficacious plan, medicine.

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Integrates into tools like HubSpot and Salesforce to make post-event followups more efficient.

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Despite our reliance on electronic storage, we still need efficient and secure cabinets to store our important personal papers.

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Not because it competes with Snowflake, but because it's utilizing a new online bidding process that's designed to find the most efficient IPO price.

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Under the most efficient GOP gerrymander, there are likely 13 safe Republican seats, with the Democrats packed into one Pittsburgh seat and four in and around Philadelphia.

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This will likely take some work and is certainly not the most efficient way to do business for Google, but it is arguably the best way to do business.

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For larger sites, making crawling more efficient can be helpful to hosting budgets.

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Patients with a tendency toward obesity have particularly efficient bacteria.

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The most efficient way to grow your backlink profile is to borrow backlink ideas from your search competitors.

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While pre-pandemic studies found remote workers were just as efficient as those in offices, there were questions about how employees would perform under compulsory lockdowns.

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The Dolphins had the worst pass D by EPA last season, and Newton was efficient when called upon, but mainly they ran and ran.

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