inefficiency

Example Sentences

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Inefficiency is one of the biggest factors holding India back, Adani says.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026

Inefficiency, even corruption, became the order of the day.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2016

Inefficiency also creates opportunities of a more low-tech order.

From Reuters • Jun. 11, 2015

But the mere fact that we now have better technology for squeezing inefficiencies out of the system is not such a reason: Inefficiency is precisely the price we have agreed to pay for nondiscrimination.

From Slate • Apr. 26, 2013

Inefficiency of economizer, by reason of which heat obtained by the expenditure of steam in the generator is passed on to the absorber and there uselessly imparted to the cooling water. d.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 647, May 26, 1888 by Various