lacking
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Charles Schwab is an exception, lacking an anti-flipping policy for IPOs, while other brokers aim to prevent price destabilization.
From Barron's • Jun. 10, 2026
What’s lacking this time, Turner said, was the pressure of a qualifying campaign to bring the team together.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026
Mice lacking the receptor developed significantly less plaque in the aorta and aortic arch, although some plaque remained in the pulmonary artery.
From Science Daily • Jun. 9, 2026
It has said a ceasefire is necessary in order for its forces to disarm Hezbollah themselves, but Israel has previously accused the government in Beirut of lacking the ability to do so.
From BBC • Jun. 6, 2026
There was an ease about them, an intimacy, which had been totally lacking from the show they had put on before the congregants last week.
From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok
Vocabulary lists containing lacking
Absent
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