lacking
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PC Harper's mother Debbie Adlam says the justice system has been "lacking"
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
Barker’s screenplay is sorely lacking the imagination and ambition needed to stake its place among the true classics, horror or otherwise.
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026
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
However, animals lacking those neurons, or in which the neurons had been switched off, showed a dramatic reduction in scratching behavior.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 14, 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
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