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Sources suggest her departure may have been due to ineffective communication with her west coast bosses.—
Ethan Millman,
HollywoodReporter,
4 Apr. 2025 -
Research shows that chondroitin sulfate reduces knee pain and improves knee function more than a placebo (an ineffective substance given to people in a clinical trial control group).—
Elizabeth Barnes,
Verywell Health,
31 Mar. 2025
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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
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Their newly single mother went off for a year to train as a mountain guide, leaving the girls with their gentle, ineffectual hippie father.—
Leslie Camhi,
New Yorker,
4 Apr. 2025
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At the center of the film is Mikal’s relationship with his mother, while Jason is more a peripheral figure, an ineffectual referee between two warring parties, managing to negotiate only temporary truces.—
Murtada Elfadl,
Variety,
30 Mar. 2025
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However, this same quantum state sensitivity makes these atoms ideal for detecting extremely weak signals.—
Paul Lipman,
Forbes.com,
4 Apr. 2025
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In contrast, the founders of the United States, fearful of tyranny, created a weak federal government that could barely impose taxes, let alone establish a national theater.—
Joanna Dee Das,
The Conversation,
4 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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The mayor is powerless—the order’s from above, the money from elsewhere.—
James Wood,
New Yorker,
7 Apr. 2025
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The system has been designed to keep us powerless, but that ends now.—
John W. Dean,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 Apr. 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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The confrontation ends when Rick pulls his gun, takes a few impotent feints at his nemesis like a junior high bully who delights in watching his prey flinch, then frustratedly tips over Jim’s chair, grabs Frank, and leaves.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
31 Mar. 2025
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The indiscriminate slashing has given impotent Democrats a hammer to use against the administration.—
Nolan Finley,
Mercury News,
26 Mar. 2025
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Trump and his spineless acolytes continue to lie to the American people.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
2 Apr. 2025
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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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“Forceless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/forceless. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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