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

He justified the approach by pointing to the inefficacy of other methods and asserting that there was “an intimate connection between the story of the patient’s sufferings and the symptoms of his illness.”

From The New Yorker • May 20, 2019

Mercifully, banner ads are in decline, due less to their ugliness than their inefficacy: Readers quickly learned to ignore them.

From Slate • Jun. 16, 2015

These instructions were not carried out; at best such a scheme would have been insufficient for the purpose; subsequent experience in the case of the Clergy Reserves proved the inefficacy of such an appropriation.

From McGill and its Story, 1821-1921 by MacMillan, Cyrus