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RankAnswerLengthSourceDate
98% DOTARD Old, ineffective sort (6) New York Times Feb 18, 2020
8% AVAIL To no ___ (ineffectively) (5) New York Times Sep 22, 2025
7% TYPE Sort (4) The Telegraph Quick Dec 1, 2025
7% BARKBITE All ____ and no ____, full of talk but ineffective (8) The Telegraph Cross Atlantic Nov 9, 2025
7% INAWAY "Sort of" (6) New York Times Nov 9, 2025
7% PLACEBO Ineffective medicine? (7) (7) The Guardian Quick Oct 1, 2025
6% EGOTIST Self-centered sort (7) LA Times Daily Dec 10, 2025
6% TBAR Sort of ski lift (4) Newsday Dec 10, 2025
6% PINATA Party animal, of a sort (6) Wall Street Journal Dec 8, 2025
6% BEAST Hardly the gentle sort (5) The Washington Post Mini Dec 8, 2025

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