drawback

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One drawback of Wales' enterprising style under Bellamy is the way in which it can leave them defensively vulnerable.

From BBC • Mar. 26, 2026

A worse drawback would be if the bull case is just wrong.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 28, 2026

Those measures have the virtue of simplicity — they’re only three pages long — but the drawback, also, of simplicity.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 14, 2026

A potential drawback, however, is that heavy crude does not flow easily and needs to be thinned out by blending it with light oils or solvents for processing.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 6, 2026

The drawback of the system was that the peasants had no control over where their strips would be.

From "Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village" by Laura Amy Schlitz