Example Sentences

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The risk is that valuations become inflated, competition narrows, and capital is allocated inefficiently.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 22, 2026

Venezuela possesses undeveloped rare-earth metal reserves, which have historically been inefficiently tapped.

From Barron's • Jan. 5, 2026

Our gas boilers are the main culprit; lots of individual devices inefficiently burning fossil fuels to create the heat.

From BBC • Mar. 11, 2025

But for the first time, researchers reported in May and July that it spread inefficiently through the air between a few laboratory ferrets kept inches apart.

From Salon • Aug. 2, 2024

Some molecules reproduced themselves inefficiently, competed for building blocks and left crude copies of themselves.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan