Recent Examples of Synonyms for falling short (of)
missing
Verb
The bodies of both children missing after a massive fire ripped through a full block of a New Jersey neighborhood earlier this week have been recovered.
—
Jessica Schladebeck,
New York Daily News,
11 Apr. 2025
That’s the sort of depth the Lions have been missing.
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