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Example Sentences

Sasaki was efficient, throwing 41 pitches and giving up just a hit and two walks while striking out two, extending his streak of scoreless innings to seven.

It also meant learning from the private sector to make customer service more efficient.

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These days he loses the ball less and is more efficient and composed in front of goal.

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There’s no more efficient colonic for your contact list than booking a trip with shared accommodations for you and your pals — the more luxurious the better.

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Curiously, she had a blind spot when it came to the most efficient mythmaking machinery of the 20th century: Hollywood movies.

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What are other ways to say efficient?

The adjective efficient, when applied to a person or a thing, implies the skillful use of energy or industry to accomplish desired results with little waste of effort: efficient methods; an efficient manager. Effective is applied to a person or a thing that has the power to, or which actually does, produce an effect: an effective boss, remedy, speech. Effectual is used especially of that which produces the effect desired or intended, or a decisive result: An effectual bombardment silenced the enemy. Efficacious suggests the capability of achieving a certain end: an efficacious plan, medicine. 

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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