inefficiency

Example Sentences

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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

Over time, some organisms have evolved ways to overcome this inefficiency.

From Science Daily • Mar. 11, 2026

“Every additional body that you throw at a problem adds more process, more bureaucracy, more politics, more inefficiency, more coordination.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 1, 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