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The phrase "an inefficient method" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing a process or technique that does not produce optimal results or consumes excessive resources.
Example: "The team decided to abandon the old system because it was an inefficient method of tracking inventory."
Alternatives: "a suboptimal approach" or "an ineffective technique."
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"I was frustrated by what an inefficient method of communication email had become.
It's an inefficient method because the current creates heat and consumes electrical power.
Snapshots are an inefficient method for storing and exchanging batch and real-time data.
Some experts argued that sex was such an inefficient method of disease transmission that it would never be much of a threat.
However, there is still a worry that Allardyce's side will depend too much on crossing, an inefficient method of creating chances.
Methods and Results: To make ATP without oxygen, cells use an inefficient method that produces lactic acid and protons as by-products.
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Fairtrade is simply a vastly inefficient method of making the lives of the poorest people in the world better.
For internal validation, we will not divide the datasets into development and validation subsets, as this is a relatively inefficient method of validating prediction models.
If the translations are added from the very beginning, any changes will have to be made to each language; this can prove to be a very inefficient method of working.
Senator Alfonse M. D'Amato of New York strongly opposes such a fee because it is an inequitable and inefficient method of raising revenue and would have serious effects on consumers, inflation, employment and the competitiveness of American industry.
To appease them, staff members handed out chocolate bars and sugary lemon-flavored drinks — a welcome, if inefficient, method of making young children keep still.
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