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
If the discharge flow at the time of the test is insufficient to take a sample, it is not regarded as a fail, and no samples are taken for the rest of the testing period.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 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 even more than that, I think, the man understood that words were insufficient.
From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien
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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