ineffectuality

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for ineffectuality
Noun
  • Google Cloud on Wednesday unveiled a suite of AI tools aimed at tackling health care's administrative and clinical inefficiencies, with two major health systems as partners.
    Erin Brodwin, Axios, 9 Apr. 2025
  • For instance, a manufacturer could track energy consumption across global facilities, identify inefficiencies and implement targeted reductions to align with corporate sustainability commitments.
    Robert Kramer, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The solution is to test AI agents thoroughly to identify any inefficacies.
    Theo Schnitfink, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2025
  • As research highlighted the inefficacy and unintended consequences of these laws, states rolled them back or modified them, mostly by partially repealing them or reducing the severity of mandatory sentences.
    John Leverso, The Conversation, 26 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • And, his inability to admit his mistakes and face the consequences.
    Paul Du Quenoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Mar. 2025
  • The inability to take feedback and self-correct is a trait that leads to stalled careers, unproductive teams, and ultimately, costly turnover.
    Mark Murphy, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Jack Harrison squandered one promising position with a pass that dribbled through to Caoimhin Kelleher, a metaphor for their impotence during the evening.
    Patrick Boyland, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2025
  • If the first terrorist attack against Charlie Hebdo was an unfortunate failure on the part of French security, the second in the Bataclan was a sign of systemic impotence.
    Camille Pecastaing, Foreign Affairs, 15 July 2016
Noun
  • This action — a mistake or incompetence, take your pick — risks disseminating important information, jaw-dropping in its specificity, to our enemies, and could perhaps endanger American lives.
    Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 3 Apr. 2025
  • Ultimately, these appeals amounted mostly to rhetorical posturing and, because of policy inconsistencies and incompetence, effected little concrete change.
    MATIAS SPEKTOR, Foreign Affairs, 1 Apr. 2025
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“Ineffectuality.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ineffectuality. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.

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