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lacking

Definition for lacking

adjective as in wanting, deficient

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"It's the most difficult feeling for a doctor to be present, able to diagnose a condition but unable to carry out essential tests and lacking the necessary treatments," Dr al-Farra says.

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Flaubert and Balzac, according to Mr. Delbourgo, were a new kind of buyer, the “Romantic collecting self,” possessed by status anxiety but lacking great wealth.

Today the press corps is so depleted, and so lacking in backbone, that no one has sprung forward to defend Date’s right to ask a legitimate question.

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It is down to United to prove me wrong, and show everyone they do have the consistency they have been lacking, and that may well be part of Amorim's team talk.

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The widemen were utilised often, even if their end product was lacking at times.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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