insufficiences

plural of insufficience

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for insufficiences
Noun
  • Handle power dynamics well by stating needs and listening for fears beneath reactions.
    Tarot.com, Sun Sentinel, 28 June 2026
  • Raising this concern to the funeral director is a great option as that person may have encountered a similar situation and be fully prepared to help walk the family through it with sensitivity to the needs of all involved.
    R. Eric Thomas, Chicago Tribune, 27 June 2026
Noun
  • In terms of both the presence of strengths and absence of deficiencies, Klepov might well be the highest potential prospect available in the teens.
    Andrew Knoll, Daily News, 25 June 2026
  • Electoral authorities also dismissed a separate challenge filed by a private citizen seeking to annul votes cast in cities across the United States, France and Spain, citing similar procedural deficiencies, including lack of standing, late filing and nonpayment of fees.
    Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 24 June 2026
Noun
  • The artist thought that paintings and drawings have a certain depth that photography on its own lacks.
    Kelsey Ables, The Atlantic, 13 June 2026
  • What Hafley’s team lacks are proven, established names; productivity that can be relied on if healthy.
    Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 7 June 2026
Noun
  • After all, one of the most forceful elements of our free society is precisely our discontent with our own shortcomings.
    Ann Manov, Harpers Magazine, 23 June 2026
  • Just read our review and be aware of its shortcomings.
    Antonio G. Di Benedetto, The Verge, 23 June 2026
Noun
  • This majestic sequence delivers a lifetime’s outpouring of love’s inadequacies and frustrations, of grief and regret, of gratitude along with candid acceptance of loss, and of self-questioning that never shakes the foundations of the family—her ferocious commitment to the children.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 12 June 2026
  • Epidemiologists and other medical experts told the AP that the suicides in ICE custody — which previously occurred typically once or not at all each year — were cause for alarm and a sign of inadequacies in care, at a minimum.
    Joseph Konig, PEOPLE, 27 May 2026
Noun
  • Pakistan has traditionally run large fiscal and external deficits, with a resultant rise in public debt.
    Priyanka Salve, CNBC, 25 June 2026
  • Still, state environmental officials and weather experts say the rainfall deficits dating back to last fall have not been completely erased.
    Drew Kann, AJC.com, 24 June 2026
Noun
  • Just keeping these buildings operable is expensive, and the district struggles to meet even immediate building needs because capacity gets crowded out by legacy debt payments and operational revenue shortfalls.
    Joe Ferguson, Chicago Tribune, 15 June 2026
  • Four Kenyan commercial banks — Credit Bank, Consolidated Bank, Development Bank of Kenya, and Access Bank Kenya — are actively scrambling to plug severe capital shortfalls after missing the Central Bank of Kenya’s strict minimum core capital deadline.
    Tiisetso Motsoeneng, semafor.com, 15 June 2026
Noun
  • The consequence of all these elements of deconstruction and lightness is that there is no space to cut corners or hide imperfections.
    Luisa Zargani, Footwear News, 23 June 2026
  • Made to melt into the skin, blur imperfections, and provide a subtle, luminous glow, the skin tint also serves as an antioxidant serum.
    Jenny Berg, Glamour, 22 June 2026
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“Insufficiences.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/insufficiences. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.

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