as in ineffectiveness
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Textron Aviation's revenues decreased by 2% to $5.3 billion, impacted by a strike that delayed aircraft deliveries and caused manufacturing inefficiencies.—
Quartz Intelligence Newsroom,
Quartz,
6 Feb. 2025 -
Supporters argue that auditing the IRS is necessary to increase transparency and eliminate inefficiencies.—
Anders Fogh Rasmussen,
Newsweek,
5 Feb. 2025
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And with Trump poised to take office again, the industry is perhaps rattled by the inefficacy of its previous calls to action—or at least lacks a vision of how to meet the political moment through either art or activism.—
Hannah Giorgis,
The Atlantic,
6 Jan. 2025
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The work is less a critique of AA’s methods than a wry commentary on art and art history’s inefficacy in remedying profound societal ills, especially those affecting Indigenous communities.—
Michaëla de Lacaze Mohrmann,
Artforum,
1 Jan. 2025
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Yet her efforts keep getting undermined by Sorrentino’s own inability to get beyond the beauty himself.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
7 Feb. 2025
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Despite his injury issues, and inability to practice for months at a time, Armstead has been a pillar of the granite on an offensive line, which already needs to be rebuilt at every spot but right tackle and center.—
Omar Kelly,
Miami Herald,
6 Feb. 2025
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The League of Nations, bereft of U.S. support, languished into impotence, and only in the aftermath of World War II did the United States begin to approximate Wilson’s vision of a Pax Americana.—
Richard Menger MD MPA,
Forbes,
13 Jan. 2025
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Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, those totems of Democratic impotence, entered together and acted as if they’d been instructed never to shoot each other so much as a passing glance.—
Vinson Cunningham,
The New Yorker,
20 Jan. 2025
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Jimmy Garoppolo profited from exposure to 49ers’ system The Commanders, thankfully shorn of the oppressive incompetence of former owner Daniel Snyder, were remade in a year by G.M. Adam Peters and coach Dan Quinn.—
Jerry McDonald,
The Mercury News,
21 Jan. 2025
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There are potential mitigating factors: infighting or incompetence within Christian nationalist and MAGA circles, the role of the courts, resistance within government agencies and at the local and state levels.—
John Blake,
CNN,
12 Jan. 2025
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“Ineffectuality.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ineffectuality. Accessed 16 Feb. 2025.
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