incompleteness

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for incompleteness
Noun
  • If the deficiency is prolonged, the plant may stop flowering and fruiting altogether.
    Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 July 2025
  • The issue was also declared a significant deficiency in 2020, and Wyandotte officials pledged to begin implementing a residential protection program.
    Keith Matheny, Freep.com, 5 July 2025
Noun
  • These conversations addressed both the risk of flooding in the Guadalupe Basin and the inadequacy of the existing warning infrastructure.
    ABC News, ABC News, 7 July 2025
  • Any inadequacies found would then be addressed with additional training and regular tests to measure skills and compliance with the department’s treatment protocols.
    Mike Hendricks, Kansas City Star, 25 June 2025
Noun
  • Nothing is ever ideal, but finding grace and affection for the imperfections that life brings is the best and only way to move in alignment with the energy.
    Lisa Stardust, refinery29.com, 2 July 2025
  • My hypercritical brain took this imperfection and ran with it.
    Jailynn Taylor, Allure, 26 June 2025
Noun
  • There’s no shortage of online debate over the relative worth of pet insurance, with consumers routinely trading notes on Reddit and elsewhere about rising premium costs, unexpected cancellations and other common shortcomings.
    Evie Steele, NBC news, 9 July 2025
  • If anything, some of the paper’s detractors argued, the findings simply demonstrated how humanlike AI models are through their shortcomings.
    Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 8 July 2025
Noun
  • The lack of responsibility is built into the City Charter.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2025
  • So often, projects don’t get off the ground because of lack of funding.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 12 July 2025
Noun
  • Tertiary adrenal insufficiency: Normally, your hypothalamus in your head secretes corticotrophin-releasing hormone, which stimulates your pituitary to secrete ACTH.
    Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes.com, 5 July 2025
  • Alopecia is also believed to be related to vitamin D insufficiency.
    Veronica Cristino and Hannah Coates, Vogue, 15 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The city implemented its program in 1997 amid a broader underfunding of the pension system, which eventually tanked the city’s credit rating, grew its deficit and led to resignations of top city officials and federal investigations.
    Lucas Robinson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 July 2025
  • The city is now being encouraged to cut staff to reduce its deficit and overtime pay.
    arkansasonline.com, arkansasonline.com, 11 July 2025
Noun
  • This shortfall overshadowed its second-quarter beat.
    Lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 15 July 2025
  • Despite its global presence, digital strategy imperatives and daily transaction volume, the 2025 McDonald’s proxy reveals three common AI-era oversight shortfalls: inadequate boardroom cyber expertise, no technology committee and cybersecurity relegated to audit oversight.
    Noah Barsky, Forbes.com, 14 July 2025
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“Incompleteness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incompleteness. Accessed 21 Jul. 2025.

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