deficiency
Example Sentences
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States that agreed to it would provide voter lists to the Justice Department, which would then look for any “insufficiencies, inadequacies, deficiencies, anomalies, or concerns.”
She has an immune system deficiency which makes it hard for her to fight bacteria.
From BBC
Chase said he is working hard to correct some of his batting deficiencies shown up in New Zealand.
From Barron's
The third entry features visual effects that are no longer novel, which means the writing deficiencies are now impossible to overlook.
Among the shortfalls was $270 million to fix thousands of deficiencies found more than a decade ago where its transmission lines hang too close to the ground, the report said.
From Los Angeles Times
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