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The phrase "it proves inadequate" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it when discussing a situation, method, or resource that fails to meet the necessary standards or requirements. Example: "Despite our efforts, the current strategy proves inadequate in addressing the challenges we face."
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If it proves inadequate, a second drug is added and the combination manipulated until the most effective regimen with the fewest side effects is found.
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The first one came in 1989, and it proved inadequate as the economy entered a recession the next year and the stock market suffered.
If history can be understood "only by admitting the most infinitesimal units for observation," as Tolstoy believed, then rationality proves inadequate; it cannot keep track of all the minute, multitudinous interactions of human motivation, or make them sensible; and the essays are a waste of time.
See below.; 3... Threatening Contagion...If the firewall fails to materialize, or inspire investor confidence, or proves inadequate, it would be easy to imagine a run on banks, because the single currency makes it easy to shift money across borders from risky economies to safer ones.
Silence as a form of rebellion proves inadequate to the moment.
If this proves inadequate, then other means, such as treatment with natural medicines, may be recommended.
"City Lights" is, to be sure, a work of comic genius, but even that phrase proves inadequate.
Support to and for our wounded warriors and their families still proves inadequate.
If the recent patent law overhaul proves inadequate to address problems in the system, further changes may well be warranted.
My tactic was crude — avoid misapprehension by minimizing the range of words that needed comprehension — and it soon proved inadequate.
But the demands of fluency are out of reach for many parents (not to mention grandparents, siblings and family friends), and as a second language, it may prove inadequate for intimacy and community.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak
CEO of Professional Science Editing for Scientists @ prosciediting.com