lack
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Example Sentences
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No suspects have been named, and local authorities have come under scrutiny over the lack or progress and certain tactical decisions.
From Los Angeles Times
Kyiv, lacking funding and access to enough sophisticated weapons, has turned to balloons as an inexpensive fallback option that comes with an asymmetric advantage in the form of local wind patterns.
He also lacked an enormous budget or access to the huge data centers that American artificial-intelligence companies have, but was able to tap a government-sponsored program that subsidizes computing power.
In laboratory experiments, mice that lacked caspase-8 in their T cells developed far higher levels of T. gondii in their brains compared to mice whose T cells produced the enzyme.
From Science Daily
It found that children had been let down by a lack of research and that there was not "good evidence" that puberty blockers, which pause the physical changes of puberty, were safe or effective.
From BBC
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