as in deficient
lacking some necessary part
an incomplete puzzle that has several pieces missing
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Recent Examples of incomplete
Also found at the site were some bony fish scales and teeth and incomplete plesiosaurian teeth, indicating a humid climate and complex ecosystem, according to the paper.
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Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 2 Sep. 2025
Stempel’s quote about the goal of screening being to find cancer earlier is incomplete.
—Cory Franklin, Chicago Tribune, 1 Sep. 2025
However, Thomas did not maintain control through the catch, and it was ruled incomplete.
—Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 31 Aug. 2025
The Buckeyes benefited from a pair of penalties, including a face mask call on Colin Simmons that wiped out an incomplete pass on third-and-4.
—Arkansas Online, 30 Aug. 2025
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Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 2 Sep. 2025
Stempel’s quote about the goal of screening being to find cancer earlier is incomplete.
—Cory Franklin, Chicago Tribune, 1 Sep. 2025
However, Thomas did not maintain control through the catch, and it was ruled incomplete.
—Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 31 Aug. 2025
The Buckeyes benefited from a pair of penalties, including a face mask call on Colin Simmons that wiped out an incomplete pass on third-and-4.
—Arkansas Online, 30 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for incomplete
Adjective
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In addition to widening the road from two to four lanes from San Dieguito Road to Via de la Valle, the narrow bridge deemed functionally obsolete and structurally deficient, will be replaced with a new 354-foot-long and 76-foot-wide bridge.—
Karen Billing,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
31 Aug. 2025
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The deficient vice of being open-minded is being narrow-minded.—
Mary Crossan,
Forbes.com,
30 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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United’s decade-plus of footballing dysfunction owes a partial debt to hiring processes that can make sense in the moment, but leave head coaches overexposed.—
Carl Anka,
New York Times,
5 Sep. 2025
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According to scientists, a molecular dipole arises when a molecule has partial positive and partial negative charge regions, giving the molecule an overall polarity that points in a specific direction.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
5 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The still-unfinished Sagrada Família inspires awe with its Gothic-meets-modernist majesty—and enduring century-long construction timeline.—
AFAR Media,
AFAR Media,
3 Sep. 2025
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Paul Allen/ Andfotography2 Two exquisitely detailed icon paintings by the late Ukrainian Oksana Shachko hang on an unfinished wall.—
Joanne Shurvell,
Forbes.com,
2 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Using a fragmentary, collage-like approach that unites characters from different eras, from the turn of the 20th century to the post–World World II era to the years of GDR rule and on to the present, Schilinski treats history like a constant haunting.—
Jill Goldsmith,
Deadline,
5 Aug. 2025
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This fragmentary plot is haunted by disconcerting echoes of the second World War and the Holocaust.—
Celia Bell
July 22,
Literary Hub,
22 July 2025
Adjective
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The plume is made of three things: (1) steam - a lot of it; (2) ash - fine, fragmental pieces of silicate glass, not stuff from your backyard BBQ (which is burned carbon); (3) volcanic gases like CO2, SO2, H2S and others.—
Erik Klemetti,
Discover Magazine,
22 May 2011
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This would generate a cloud of hot gases and fragmental volcanic material, which could then move downslope gravitationally.—
Erik Klemetti,
WIRED,
12 Apr. 2011
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“Incomplete.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incomplete. Accessed 7 Sep. 2025.
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