shortcomings

noun

plural of shortcoming
as in weaknesses
a defect in character a wife who never tires of listing her husband's perceived shortcomings

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Recent Examples of shortcomings Youssef added that one of the biggest shortcomings in many squatter investigations is the lack of follow-up fact gathering. — Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 5 July 2026 So why did the dynamic between James and the Lakers feel awkward both through their successes and shortcomings? — Mark Medina, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026 Yet soon, details emerged suggesting that regulatory shortcomings did indeed play a central part. — Oscar Schwartz, New Yorker, 29 June 2026 Neither the economic clouds or battlefield shortcomings have been enough to stop Putin and the Russian military. — Tristan Bove, Fortune, 2 July 2026 But Robertson said that the omission of any testimony on the shortcomings in the fighting of the fire, after a ruling by the judge, was an elephant in the room that was clearly bothersome to jurors. — Alene Tchekmedyian, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2026 Before the earthquakes, the government generally defended its national health system as robust, blaming shortcomings on sanctions imposed by the United States. — Max Saltman, CNN Money, 30 June 2026 Those shortcomings reflect to a great degree how little Miami’s business and political leadership has valued indigenous sites, Wheeler and archaeologists say. — Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 30 June 2026 Nilson Angulo’s strike was excellent and Gonzalo Plata’s winner, which will live long in the Ecuadorian memory, ensured Germany’s shortcomings were punished. — Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 5 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for shortcomings
  1. weaknesses
  2. faults
  3. sins
Noun
  • The study, whose goal is to identify weaknesses in AI systems to help build stronger defenses, focuses on AI systems that use both images and text.
    — Laurie Mermet, Sun Sentinel, 6 July 2026
  • Acceptance of the issues, a willingness to work through weaknesses and negotiate the situations that come up.
    — Chris Evans, Forbes.com, 5 July 2026
Definition of weaknesses
Noun
  • The actor, whose political beliefs don’t cleanly map onto the modern divisions of the two-party system, has both a reverence for America as a set of ideals and an awareness of the faults within its history that creates interesting textual friction.
    — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 3 July 2026
  • But when both faults are at the same or similar elevated levels of stress, this is a problem.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 28 June 2026
Definition of faults
Noun
  • But there are plenty of sins against the rules of cinematic chastity that marked that movement, such as the ample space made for Lasse Aagaard’s affecting, low-key score that amps up the anxiety as Vibeke starts to spiral.
    — Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 8 July 2026
  • Still, the tour doesn’t shy away from the mission’s sins over its 250 years, demystifying how supposedly carefree life was during the height of its operations before the United States conquered Mexico.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 4 July 2026
Definition of sins

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