inefficiently

Example Sentences

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Venezuela possesses undeveloped rare-earth metal reserves, which have historically been inefficiently tapped.

From Barron's • Jan. 5, 2026

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

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