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The phrase "an inefficient mode" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing methods, processes, or systems that are not effective or optimal.
Example: "The current transportation system is an inefficient mode of travel, leading to increased congestion and delays."
Alternatives: "a suboptimal method" or "an ineffective approach."
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Additionally, an inefficient mode of operation can result in severe device degradation.
Triesman pointed out that, quite apart from the social justice issue, employing researchers on a series of short-term contracts is an "inefficient mode of employment".
Vaginal intercourse, though an inefficient mode of transmission, contributes more new infections worldwide than any other route.
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They are a horribly inefficient mode of transport why move a ton of metal around in order to transport a few bags of groceries?—and they cause pollution, in the form of particulates and nasty gases.
To Mr. Rockefeller, this seemed "an inefficient way to run things".
It's an inefficient way of cleaning ourselves".
The critical heat flux changes boiling mechanism from efficient mode to inefficient mode by forming a vapor film over the heater surface that leads to boiling crisis.
When the oblique loads were taken into account, the tubes could undergo global bending, which is an inefficient deformation mode.
The bus is a noisy, dirty, lumbering, uncomfortable and utterly inefficient mode of "rapid" transit.
The apps have made it easier for people to travel by the "most inefficient mode of transportation possible," she said.
Greatly increased motivation also may change performance qualitatively by introducing new inefficient modes of behaviour.
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