ineffective
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It’s also ineffective and inhumane, he argued, because people arrested will simply end up back on the streets.
From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026
But the bans have become ineffective due to lax enforcement and because private-equity firms have devised workarounds to get economic and operational control of medical practices without violating the laws, Rooke-Ley said.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026
"Our findings suggest that this may be an example of what is known as a medical reversal, where broadly used therapy proves ineffective or even harmful."
From Science Daily • May 6, 2026
"My democratic right to vote has been taken away from me by a quite obviously ineffective process," he said.
From BBC • May 5, 2026
“Only androids show up with false memory systems; it’s been found ineffective in humans.”
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
Vocabulary lists containing ineffective
Florida's B.E.S.T. Common Prefixes: in-, im-, il-, ir-
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