inefficacy
Example Sentences
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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
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 incident sparked a fiery public debate and several protests decrying the inefficacy of the Gurgaon police.
From New York Times ● Apr. 4, 2012
The prince, whose humanity would not suffer him to insult misery with reproof, went away convinced of the emptiness of rhetorical sound, and the inefficacy of polished periods and studied sentences.
From Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale by William Beckford
