as in deficient
lacking some necessary part
an incomplete puzzle that has several pieces missing
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Recent Examples of incomplete
Canadian-Inspired Picnic Menu A picnic is incomplete without food, and what better way to infuse a bit of Canadian pride than by including a few traditional dishes?
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Matt Rozo, Mercury News, 19 May 2025
The good news is that, thanks to an incomplete patchwork of state laws, personal information removal services can approach hundreds of individual data brokers on your behalf with legally binding data-removal requests.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 15 May 2025
This tally is an undercount, though, as the EPA data is incomplete.
—Austin Fast, USA Today, 16 May 2025
Wildlife crossing projects for red wolves in North Carolina and Nevada tortoises are among $126 million in federal infrastructure grants to 17 states that U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy finalized from a backlog of 3,200 incomplete Biden-era grants.
—Noël Fletcher, Forbes.com, 15 May 2025
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Matt Rozo, Mercury News, 19 May 2025
The good news is that, thanks to an incomplete patchwork of state laws, personal information removal services can approach hundreds of individual data brokers on your behalf with legally binding data-removal requests.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 15 May 2025
This tally is an undercount, though, as the EPA data is incomplete.
—Austin Fast, USA Today, 16 May 2025
Wildlife crossing projects for red wolves in North Carolina and Nevada tortoises are among $126 million in federal infrastructure grants to 17 states that U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy finalized from a backlog of 3,200 incomplete Biden-era grants.
—Noël Fletcher, Forbes.com, 15 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for incomplete
Adjective
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He's been deficient as a one-on-one defender; inconsistent as a bench scorer.—
Bennett Durando,
Denver Post,
16 May 2025
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Every leader has the opportunity to assess their strength of character relative to the 11 dimensions and to understand whether what could be a virtue manifests as a deficient (underdeveloped) or an excess (unsupported) vice, which could compromise judgment and well-being.—
Mary Crossan,
Forbes.com,
8 May 2025
Adjective
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However, that is only a partial consolation: to buy back those months, borrowers must make extra lump-sum payments for each month of forbearance and wait for those payments to be processed and credited.—
Shahar Ziv,
Forbes.com,
21 May 2025
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This week in politics The Kansas Department of Transportation is now managing six bridge projects in Wyandotte County associated with four complete bridge closures, several partial closures and additional lane restrictions.—
Matthew Kelly,
Kansas City Star,
21 May 2025
Adjective
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After pitching the story idea to Shults, Tesfaye sent him song demos, unfinished material and references from older songs that the director would put in the script.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
17 May 2025
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An ongoing legal battle between a Kansas town and a burger joint over an unfinished mural is sparking controversy in the community, with lawyers claiming the city violated free speech rights.—
Kendrick Calfee,
Kansas City Star,
15 May 2025
Adjective
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Told in a fragmentary narrative filled with digression (and interjections from the author), Khoury’s novel tackles themes of identity and oppression that are incredibly relevant today.—
Nate Zipp,
Christian Science Monitor,
1 May 2025
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While her book is at times fragmentary and episodic, marked by abrupt discontinuities, the cumulative effect is powerful, eloquently testifying to the horrific consequences of this conflict.—
Rebecca Donner,
New York Times,
18 Feb. 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,
Discover Magazine,
12 Apr. 2011
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“Incomplete.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incomplete. Accessed 30 May. 2025.
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