insufficient
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“Existing funding is already insufficient to sustain these services.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026
Savitt and others saw it as insufficient in scope.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
Speaking earlier this week, Dan De'Ath, the council's cabinet member for environment, said its current funding levels were "simply insufficient".
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
Meanwhile, Dallas Fed President Lorie Logan warned that progress toward the Fed’s 2% inflation goal was still insufficient, suggesting she could dissent in favor of raising interest rates rather than holding them steady.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026
But suppose what you had to do was so complicated that even several billion bits was insufficient.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
Vocabulary lists containing insufficient
Figurative Language in King's "I Have a Dream" Speech (1963)
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Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" Speech (1963)
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