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
The team's experiments showed that the gold-patterned structures substantially increased the amount of heat moving across the gap, achieving heat transfer rates up to four times greater than comparable systems lacking the engineered patterns.
From Science Daily • Jun. 8, 2026
Later, it would settle a class-action lawsuit for false advertising and announce the retirement of its head of AI, who was criticized for lacking a vision for Siri.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026
“If we wait till then to find out that our closets are lacking something essential, it’ll be too late to do anything about it, and that would be dumb.”
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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