lacked
Example Sentences
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The court’s majority said it had concluded only that the government is likely to win its argument that the National Trust for Historic Preservation lacked the required legal injury to sue to stop construction.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
That was not an entirely neutral proposition at a moment when American women still lacked a constitutional right to vote and girls were being prepared for far narrower versions of adulthood.
From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2026
She applied for more than 30 jobs but was repeatedly told she lacked experience.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
"What happened is to be inquired, where the hospital lacked facilities."
From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026
They lacked the financial means, the technology, and the social organization to maintain colonies so far from Europe.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
