ineffectuality

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ineffectuality
Noun
  • This resource-aware orchestration prevents inefficiencies and optimizes performance.
    Tyler Shepherd, USA TODAY, 21 Feb. 2025
  • The proposal suggests that about 79 million American households could benefit from a direct payment, incentivizing them to report inefficiencies, thus potentially increasing overall savings.
    Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 21 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • The Panthers understood that liberation and empowerment could only come through communal love focused on helping one’s neighbors and building up one’s community, even though their inability to live up to their ideals ultimately limited some of the group’s potential.
    Mickell Carter / Made by History, TIME, 19 Feb. 2025
  • But they have been slowed by the COVID pandemic, cost increases due to inflation, permitting delays and other problems, including the inability of local water agencies sponsoring them to come up with all of the matching funds.
    Paul Rogers, The Mercury News, 19 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The local government’s impotence reflects a broader dynamic in Iraq: Baghdad’s reliance on Shiite militias has allowed those groups to gain undue power.
    Vera Mironova, Foreign Affairs, 3 Nov. 2016
  • 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
Noun
  • As if this stunning display of incompetence was not enough, La Shell — the only non-Family player left on the hike — let David and Parvati finish the hike without a fight.
    Laura Bradley, Vulture, 25 Feb. 2025
  • Detectives torpedoed their own investigations with long delays, lost evidence, incompetence and attempts to cover up mistakes, police memos show.
    Donna McGuire, Ian Cummings, and Glenn E. Rice, Kansas City Star, 25 Feb. 2025
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“Ineffectuality.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ineffectuality. Accessed 6 Mar. 2025.

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