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synonyms for ineffective
- feeble
- fruitless
- futile
- impotent
- inadequate
- incompetent
- indecisive
- ineffectual
- inefficient
- inept
- limited
- null
- powerless
- unable
- unproductive
- unprofitable
- unsuccessful
- worthless
- abortive
- anticlimactic
- barren
- bootless
- defeasible
- emasculate
- epicene
- feckless
- forceless
- idle
- inefficacious
- inferior
- innocuous
- inoperative
- lame
- neutralized
- no-go
- not effective
- nugatory
- paltry
- slack-spined
- spineless
- unavailable
- unavailing
- unfruitful
- vain
- void
- withered
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Simply telling a content team to put their act together is an easy but ineffective decision.
Content marketing fails: How to analyze and improve | Michael Doer | August 27, 2020 | Search Engine WatchIf an unsafe or ineffective vaccine goes into wide use, that will be a bigger setback than we’ll suffer if convalescent plasma proves a dud.
The US just approved the use of plasma from covid-19 survivors as a treatment | Antonio Regalado | August 24, 2020 | MIT Technology ReviewAt the beginning of the pandemic, tests were unavailable, error prone, or simply ineffective.
Machine-learning researchers who fail to realize this and expect tools to work “off the shelf” often wind up creating ineffective models.
Too many AI researchers think real-world problems are not relevant | Amy Nordrum | August 18, 2020 | MIT Technology ReviewWe could learn that the state has continued to fail and is ineffective and instead of the state, we have to turn to corporations.
How to Prevent Another Great Depression (Ep. 421) | Stephen J. Dubner | June 11, 2020 | FreakonomicsAs a Washington attorney, he took on companies that seemed immune to change, even when they were ineffective.
And eight months on, anger lingers over the ineffective attempts to rescue the missing schoolgirls.
The New Face of Boko Haram’s Terror: Teen Girls | Nina Strochlic | December 13, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTPolicy is an ineffective tool to address the cultural problem of privileging access over ownership.
And what if you put so many conditions on it that it makes any military operations ineffective?
Top Republican: 'Disaster' If Obama Loses ISIS Vote, So Don't Go to Congress | Tim Mak | September 9, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThey can dismiss ineffective instructors quickly if necessary.
What Charter Schools Are Getting Right And Why They Top Our High School Rankings | Conor P. Williams | August 27, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBruce demolished the castle; whether because it was of the old ineffective type, or because he had no means of holding it.
King Robert the Bruce | A. F. MurisonYou may say, in the case of Sikes and the peer, that the logic of the Determinist is sound, but ineffective: nothing comes of it.
God and my Neighbour | Robert BlatchfordIf the bombardment was ineffective, from whatever cause, then the men should not have been allowed to break cover.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I | Ian HamiltonAlthough the beat of a raindrop is proverbially light, the stroke is not ineffective.
Outlines of the Earth's History | Nathaniel Southgate ShalerBacon was disgusted with ineffective logical speculations, and Socrates with ineffective physical researches.
Beacon Lights of History, Volume I | John Lord
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