ineffectual
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Whereas previous interventions by the Japanese were short-lived and ineffectual, though, this rally has developed momentum.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026
Europeans have long acknowledged that their slow-growing economies need fixing and that they must boost military spending, though actions to address those shortfalls have been slow or ineffectual.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 6, 2025
It’s also odd that the activist-minded Greengrass didn’t do more with so corporate a villain: legally responsible utility PG&E, represented in the movie by an ineffectual suit who is briefly yelled at.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2025
In this tit for tat, though, California’s threats to respond have thus far proved ineffectual.
From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2025
She made no ineffectual efforts to conduct her household en bonne ménagère, going and coming as it suited her fancy, and, so far as she was able, lending herself to any passing caprice.
From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin
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The Old Man and the Sea
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The Haunting of Hill House
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