efficacy

In a sentence

Six example sentences with efficacy, each labelled with its topic.

• The trial measured the vaccine's efficacy over two winters by comparing infection rates in neighboring villages.

  Medicine

• Nobody trusted the filter's efficacy until it caught nine of the ten test messages without touching real mail.

  Technology

• Short daily journaling showed surprising efficacy: students who kept it up reported calmer weeks by the end of term.

  Psychology

• Studies of static stretching found little efficacy for preventing injury, and most coaches switched to warm-up jogs instead.

  Fitness

• The restored marsh proved its efficacy during the spring floods, holding back water that would once have reached the town.

  Environment

• Economists still argue over the efficacy of the stimulus, since nobody can rerun the recession without it.

  Economics

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