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Housing prices in London have trended lower over the past year thanks to higher interest rates, but the lack of new supply is keeping prices higher than they should be.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026

But much of the promised assistance never arrived, and a lack of roads and recurring floods made it difficult to sell his produce.

From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026

Ghost guns, which authorities say make it more difficult to investigate shootings because they lack serial numbers, have been a growing problem for law enforcement nationwide.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2026

"The core systemic problem is the lack of transparency and accountability," said Rahul Easwar, a Hindu activist and grandson of a former chief priest of Kerala state's Sabarimala temple.

From Barron's ● Jul. 19, 2026

He had never married—not here, which wasn’t unusual because of the lack of women, but he hadn’t gone back to China for a wife either.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

Pitching investors in May, DeepSeek’s Liang said the startup could lose momentum if it lacks the funds to retain top talent and expand its computing infrastructure.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026

If you think his millennial lingo is a sign that he lacks judgment in other areas, you can tell him that “you guyses” are splitting up with him.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026

Modern MRI reveals the whole brain but lacks cellular detail; microscopes reveal individual cells but only in isolated slices.

From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026

Images of the plane show it lacks some of key security features.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 2026

Most of the radiation that surrounds us lacks the energy to do us harm.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland

Local planning officers denied the bid earlier this year, saying it lacked detail.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026

While Zhu would grow GigaDevice into a highly successful publicly traded chip designer in the years that followed, the company lacked the capital and expertise to become a memory juggernaut.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 18, 2026

From Diego Maradona's infamous 'Hand of God' goal in 1986 to David Beckham's red card 12 years later, games between the two nations have rarely lacked drama.

From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026

Building safety expert Wasawat Kitsiriteeraphak, a consultant who visited the site with forensic police, said the venue lacked some basic safety systems that could have saved lives.

From Barron's ● Jul. 14, 2026

Overall, my grandmother felt content and safe in her marriage, but it lacked the kind of passionate love she always imagined for herself.

From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi

Official statistics are lacking, but media in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan have reported an increasing number of victims.

From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026

“That sense of community—that community cohesion—is everywhere in the soccer world. But it is completely lacking in the United States.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

The team also found that vaccinated mice lacking cDC2 cells, as well as mice with both dendritic cell subtypes intact, successfully mounted immune responses and rejected tumor growth.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 9, 2026

Idealab founder Bill Gross said he embraced the concept as an alternative to the tiny home formula of extremely low-cost structures lacking amenities but requiring tens of thousands of dollars in installation and utility costs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026

The second is that societies lacking the invention find themselves at a disadvantage vis-a-vis the inventing society, and they become overwhelmed and replaced if the disadvantage is sufficiently great.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond