Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for insufficiences
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If social media is any indication, lean bulking still commonly involves extreme dieting, which can lead to nutrition deficiencies, hormonal changes, eating disorders, and loss of muscle and bone density.—
Yasmin Tayag,
The Atlantic,
17 Oct. 2025 -
The Swedish government said up to 95 percent of the population could survive on grains for three months without any nutrient deficiencies in the plan which would provide people with 3,000 calories a day.—
Brendan Cole,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 Oct. 2025
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Besides regularly removing dust that forms on the fan blades, cleaning needs can also change with the seasons.—
Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
20 Oct. 2025
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Prisoners are not allowed to keep money behind bars, but cash can be provided by family members to a commissary fund used to buy food, toiletries and other minor needs, according to the Prison Fellowship.—
Mark Price,
Miami Herald,
20 Oct. 2025
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So Vegas has to hope that their forward depth is strong enough to balance out where their star power lacks, relative to other contenders.—
The Athletic NHL,
New York Times,
2 Oct. 2025
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This absence — of God, of love, of plain community spirit — is a metaphor for the whole parish, where everyone is defined by their own lacks and deficiencies, the weaknesses that cause Wicks to despise them and vow to bring down them all.—
Damon Wise,
Deadline,
6 Sep. 2025
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Judge has the same flaw in postseason shortcomings, both individually as a team.—
Tim Crowley,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Oct. 2025
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By now, the Jolly Rancher had vanished, as had a round of the house’s elegant dirty Martini, whose shortcomings in grit were made up for in potency.—
Helen Shaw,
New Yorker,
17 Oct. 2025
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The clapping served as an audible reminder of the Aztecs’ offensive inadequacies, and players visibly tightened as the clanked shots and errant passes mounted.—
Mark Zeigler,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
19 Oct. 2025
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Yet fortunes have turned more recently, with on-field inadequacies slowly but surely eating into off-field resources.—
Chris Weatherspoon,
New York Times,
1 Oct. 2025
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Ford's warning adds to a growing call from business leaders urging policymakers to consider the economic implications of labor shortfalls in critical industries.—
Billal Rahman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 Oct. 2025
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Reports of the staffing shortfalls came hours after Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said there has been a slight increase in sick calls since the government shutdown began on Wednesday.—
Jay Blackman,
NBC news,
7 Oct. 2025
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The learning deficits are hard to measure, because testing protocols have changed in the past three years.—
Robert F. Worth,
The Atlantic,
19 Oct. 2025
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Cheap money for years to come made bigger deficits affordable.—
Editorial,
Boston Herald,
19 Oct. 2025
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This behavior will lead to a spectrum of temperature imperfections in the Big Bang’s leftover glow, and eventually will form the seeds of structure that grow into stars, galaxies, and the cosmic web.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
23 Oct. 2025
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Lee and the creative team worked to find ways to make the AI present as technologically perfect, but also make sure the imperfections of AI were still on full display.—
Hunter Ingram,
Variety,
22 Oct. 2025
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“Insufficiences.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/insufficiences. Accessed 24 Oct. 2025.
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