insufficiencies

plural of insufficiency

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Recent Examples of insufficiencies Where to Start To solve the insufficiencies found within conventional site assessment methodologies, POWER Engineers, Member of WSP, designed a transformative threat assessment tool called Meerkat. IEEE Spectrum, 23 June 2025
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Noun
  • For American farmers waiting on harvesting equipment, that means delays, shortages and higher costs down the line.
    Veronique De Rugy, Oc Register, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Recovering and processing that gas, instead of wasting it, could ease Iraq's chronic power shortages.
    Emma Graham, CNBC, 15 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • 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
Noun
  • 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
  • Debates surrounding its future intensified in the 2000s, as DFW’s ballooning population laid bare the long-term inadequacies of its water reserves.
    Eleanor Dearman Updated August 15, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Aug. 2025

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