inefficacy

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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 Anabaptist believed in the inefficacy of baptism without faith manifested by an external act; but is not Calvin, at this very hour, as much to be pitied as the Anabaptist?

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 09 by Johnson, Rossiter