deficient
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First-year students, according to thousands of professors, are arriving severely deficient in math and weak in writing skills.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
The addition of heavy landscape planters and thick paving stone on the pool deck in the 1990s further stressed the building, adding tons of uncalculated deadweight to the deficient slab.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
For some women, who are more likely to be iron deficient, supplements can help, but they should only be taken over a short period of time until levels have bounced back.
From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2026
The vitamin D deficient group also required more opioid medication.
From Science Daily ● May 20, 2026
It troubled Leah that people thought our household deficient, not because our mother was parked at death’s door, but because we lacked a bákala mpandi-—a strong man—to oversee us.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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