How to Use inefficiency in a Sentence

inefficiency

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  • She claims that money can be saved by reducing inefficiencies.
  • The candidate blamed her opponent for the local government's inefficiency.
  • In some places, the city has admitted to glaring inefficiencies in its spending.
    — Trisha Thadani, SFChronicle.com, 30 June 2019
  • But if inefficiencies can’t be ironed out, the provider, not the insurance company, is on the hook for the overrun.
    — Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 July 2019
  • Samardzija gave up three hits but walked three batters, and his inefficiency prompted Bochy to summon the bullpen early.
    — John Shea, SFChronicle.com, 6 Aug. 2019
  • The inefficiency in the passing game and struggles for receivers to escape coverage.
    — Chris Solari, Detroit Free Press, 31 July 2019
  • Russ has averaged a triple double for three straight seasons, yet his impact on winning is still clouded by his inefficiency and poor shot selection.
    — Rohan Nadkarni, SI.com, 9 July 2019
  • Solutions that exploit the inefficiencies of traditional primary care and fill in the gaps leave us uncertain about the future role of primary care physicians.
    — STAT, 20 June 2019
  • Besides, a lot of the Beavers’ inefficiency was due to things that the Hoyas were doing to them.
    — oregonlive, 28 Mar. 2021
  • Israel has said the lack of aid is due to U.N. inefficiency.
    — Jane Arraf, NPR, 1 Mar. 2024
  • The research about team inefficiency has been clear for more than a decade.
    — Mattias Bergstrom, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2022
  • The game felt out of reach there due to Atlanta’s inefficiencies.
    — Fiifi Frimpong, New York Daily News, 7 June 2024
  • That leads to broader inefficiency: as many as 25% of all trucks on the road at any moment are empty, both in the U.S. and Europe.
    — David Z. Morris, Fortune, 9 Sep. 2019
  • That is, companies learned that the cost of empty shelves was higher than the cost of some inefficiency.
    — Fortune, 11 Jan. 2023
  • The narrower the time frame, the larger the market inefficiencies and the greater the chance that an algorithm’s choice of trade will succeed.
    — The Economist, 14 Nov. 2019
  • But the inefficiency and constrictions of the offense are grating for the GOAT.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 24 Nov. 2019
  • The Ravens buried themselves with turnovers, special-teams miscues and red-zone inefficiency in a 13-3 road loss to the Cleveland Browns.
    — Childs Walker, Baltimore Sun, 18 Dec. 2022
  • The turnovers were gone, but the inefficiency was still there as the Bengals played catch-up for essentially the entirety of their 20-17 loss to the Cowboys.
    — Andrew Gillis, cleveland, 19 Sep. 2022
  • CEFs are the only corner of the market with this sweet inefficiency.
    — Brett Owens, Forbes, 10 Aug. 2022
  • Despite inefficiency on the boards, UAB is as tenacious as any team in the country on the defensive end.
    — Evan Dudley, al, 17 Nov. 2021
  • After a month of red-zone inefficiency, Prescott found a wide-open Elliott cutting right for a 5-yard touchdown around the right side.
    — Jori Epstein, USA TODAY, 27 Dec. 2021
  • The second one is the inefficiency of the capture process itself, although there are ways this could be better.
    — James Morris, Forbes, 25 Sep. 2021
  • Each of the Big Three cloud providers has ironed out inefficiencies in the hardware and software running in their data centers.
    — Wired, 10 Dec. 2019
  • But one sequence late in the first half demonstrated the team’s inefficiency.
    — Edward Lee, baltimoresun.com, 11 Nov. 2021
  • The letter from the state officials implored the service to fix its inefficiencies to help have a smooth election process.
    — Fernando Cervantes Jr., USA TODAY, 12 Sep. 2024
  • FedEx views the change as a way to address the inefficiencies that arise when Express and Ground trucks appear in the same neighborhoods bringing packages to homes.
    — Paul Ziobro, WSJ, 7 Feb. 2020
  • This rampant inefficiency at the plate led to a quiet, somber postgame clubhouse.
    — Ron Kroichick, SFChronicle.com, 2 Oct. 2019
  • The inefficiency of Houston's guards is sinking the NBA's worst offense.
    — Michael Shapiro, Chron, 15 Jan. 2023
  • Many teams are currently ill-equipped to fully utilize AI tools, resulting in inefficiencies and missed opportunities.
    — Ethan Stone, USA TODAY, 17 Oct. 2024
  • Focusing on addressing inefficiencies, leveraging planning tools and staying agile in response to macro shifts are paramount.
    — Sean Brophy, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024

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