as in efficient
producing or capable of producing a desired result
taking a cookie break while studying is one of the most efficacious ways of rejuvenating the mind that I have ever discovered
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Recent Examples of efficacious
Despite Chief Justice Warren formally writing the opinion to apply exclusively to education, its attack on segregation has—paradoxically—been most efficacious beyond that original context.
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Justin Driver, The Atlantic, 15 Mar. 2025
Providing the opportunity to cover these costs is essential for incentivizing continued medical innovation – helping patients still waiting for efficacious treatments.
—Wayne Winegarden, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2025
But the European Union’s post-national foreign policy is clearly more efficacious in some areas than in others.
—Kathleen R. McNamara, Foreign Affairs, 4 Mar. 2014
My company makes money when a third party provider recommends efficacious treatments of root cause non-pharmaceutical interventions.
—Miles Bryan, Vox, 30 Jan. 2025
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Justin Driver, The Atlantic, 15 Mar. 2025
Providing the opportunity to cover these costs is essential for incentivizing continued medical innovation – helping patients still waiting for efficacious treatments.
—Wayne Winegarden, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2025
But the European Union’s post-national foreign policy is clearly more efficacious in some areas than in others.
—Kathleen R. McNamara, Foreign Affairs, 4 Mar. 2014
My company makes money when a third party provider recommends efficacious treatments of root cause non-pharmaceutical interventions.
—Miles Bryan, Vox, 30 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for efficacious
Adjective
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This Duke team is the second-most efficient the sport has seen since Ken Pomeroy started tracking efficiency in the 1996-97 season.—
Joe Rexrode,
New York Times,
6 Apr. 2025
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Illinois residents deserve a more efficient and effective governmental system than the current chaotic mix of unaccountable jurisdictions.—
David Greising,
Chicago Tribune,
6 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Chemical control: Pesticides must make direct contact with the adult insect to be effective, and thrips are protected within the buds and plant tissues.—
Rita Perwich,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
5 Apr. 2025
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With the repeal of GPO, known as Government Pension Offset, which was passed at the end of 2024, which is retroactively effective as of January 2024, your survivor benefit is no longer reduced by two-thirds.—
Elliot Raphaelson,
The Orlando Sentinel,
5 Apr. 2025
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To the contrary: Adding J.T. Miller was supposed to make the power play more potent.—
Arthur Staple,
New York Times,
3 Apr. 2025
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The Handmaid’s Tale is still more than capable of nightmarish images and emotionally potent sequences.—
Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
3 Apr. 2025
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“Efficacious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/efficacious. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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