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Adjective
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But there’s little sense in safeguarding an ineffective K-12 status quo, particularly for students without wealth or social capital.—
Ryan Craig,
Forbes,
21 Mar. 2025 -
The company identified material weaknesses in its internal control over financial reporting, primarily due to insufficient resources and ineffective controls related to financial reporting processes.—
Quartz Intelligence Newsroom,
Quartz,
20 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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In the final days of the competition, the flabby fish got a little extra push when two New Zealand radio hosts began encouraging listeners to join Team Blobfish.—
Sarah Kuta,
Smithsonian Magazine,
20 Mar. 2025
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In the first season, when jokes went flabby or the writers didn’t know how to finish a skit, a fake cow was dropped from the rafters.—
Christopher Borrelli,
Chicago Tribune,
14 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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The first is that the Trump administration’s strikes are destined to be as ineffectual as Joe Biden’s.—
The Editors,
National Review,
18 Mar. 2025
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But two factors are important to keep in mind to help explain why even trying to front-run a White House announcement would be ineffectual.—
Michael Hiltzik,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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However, a weaker dollar, resulting from tariffs and other policies, makes that harder for exporters.—
Brendan Coffey,
Sportico.com,
4 Apr. 2025
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After seven episodes of pained teeth-gritting and wide-eyed astonishment, he’s found closure in confronting the man who killed his father (or not) and finding only a weak old guy too sickly to punch.—
Eliana Dockterman,
Time,
4 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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While many people may feel powerless, there are steps that borrowers can take, even if they are impacted by the Trump administration’s recent actions.—
Adam S. Minsky,
Forbes,
24 Mar. 2025
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In its initial stage, however, The Beacon is about empowering people who feel powerless.—
Andrew Silow-Carroll,
Sun Sentinel,
24 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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In the last scene of the film, the Father stands on a rock in the middle of a waterfall, naked, flaccid, alone, and screaming, shattered with desire.—
P.E. Moskowitz,
Vulture,
7 Mar. 2025
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The line felt dumb and flaccid, derivative in an irritating rather than with-it sense, and lacking the transgression found in good gallows humor.—
Lauren Michele Jackson,
The New Yorker,
27 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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And Musk’s theatricalities are impotent: Government spending will grow as long as baby boomers continue to retire, the population ages and Congress continues to enlarge the national debt with gargantuan budget deficits.—
George Will,
Twin Cities,
20 Mar. 2025
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This Gilded Age rule—that those who act violently against individuals inherit the mantle of religious martyrdom, while those who act practically to improve a system are dismissed as impotent proceduralists—is visible in the continued appeal of the anarchist imagination.—
Adam Gopnik,
The New Yorker,
24 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Make no mistake: New York's seniors are paying the price for Lawler's weak and spineless leadership.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
20 Mar. 2025
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Duplass’ Michael is a dud, sorta sweet but totally spineless.—
Angie Han,
The Hollywood Reporter,
18 Mar. 2025
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“Forceless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/forceless. Accessed 8 Apr. 2025.
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