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inefficiency

[in-i-fish-uhn-see] / ˌɪn ɪˈfɪʃ ən si /


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He’s betting that loyalty is college football’s new inefficiency.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026

Then there is the inefficiency of running the meatpacking plants at much less than full capacity.

From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026

But the inefficiency sent his pitch count past 80 before he exited with runners on first and second in the fifth.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 27, 2026

Board members can only be removed for cause, meaning malfeasance, inefficiency, or neglect in their duties.

From Slate ● Apr. 24, 2026

Because of those laws, not much foreign beer gets exported to Germany, and because of inefficiency and high prices much less of that wonderful German beer than you would otherwise expect gets sold abroad.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

The CQC says this could create inefficiencies - nearly a third of these services are providing care to four or fewer people.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

It praised “artificial intelligence and machine translation” as “cost-effective methods for bridging language barriers and reducing inefficiencies with the translation process,” and called for phasing out “unnecessary multilingual offerings.”

From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026

Instead, she effectively told voters that the past four years of disasters, inefficiencies and ineptitude are still a better option than taking a chance on the City Hall equivalent of the classroom dork.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026

But recessions rid economies of the inefficiencies and excesses that stop them from achieving robust growth postrecovery.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

Hubler and his traders thought they were smart guys put on earth to exploit the market’s stupid inefficiencies.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis


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