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inefficiently



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Gift giving is one of the few domains in which society knowingly chooses to run a market inefficiently.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 23, 2025

Altfest favors buying individual municipal bonds versus funds for clients because the muni bond market tends to be inefficiently priced, offering smart investors opportunities to get good deals.

From Barron's Nov. 25, 2025

Our gas boilers are the main culprit; lots of individual devices inefficiently burning fossil fuels to create the heat.

From BBC Mar. 11, 2025

But for the first time, researchers reported in May and July that it spread inefficiently through the air between a few laboratory ferrets kept inches apart.

From Salon Aug. 2, 2024

The new laundry maid, Nivea, was using them up inefficiently, without a system.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez




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