Vocabulary
Efficacy
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
the ability to produce a desired or intended result.
Urdu meaning
تاثیر، اثر پیدا کرنے کی قوت
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- Regardless of the potency inherent in the SMDA which dots the I`s in Israel and India, its efficacy will lie in itsapplication if Saudi Arabia or Pakistan are attacked.
- However, just as the proof of the pudding is in the eating, the relevance and efficacy of the above lies in its practice.
- MAGA`s White House crew forbade universities from discussing equity, diversity, race, affirmative action, climate change, vaccine efficacy, wildlife protection or anything considered `woke`.
- Hence the need to evaluate the efficacy of existing measures to check terrorist financing and revamp the entire system.
- But the efficacy was directly linked to the facts which allowed Islamabad to tell its story.
Synonyms
effectiveness, success, successfulness, productiveness, fruitfulness, potency, power
Curator example
“there is little information on the efficacy of this treatment”
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These entries support close reading of Dawn editorials and opinion pieces: short definitions,
Urdu equivalents where we have them, word relations, and—when generated—real lines from the editorial archive
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