insufficiences

noun

plural of insufficience
as in needs

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for insufficiences
  1. needs
  2. deficiencies
  3. lacks
  4. shortcomings
  5. inadequacies
  6. deficits
  7. shortfalls
  8. imperfections
Noun
  • While many nations were already moving towards taking over their maternal and child health needs, lead times for orders can be a year or more, five former USAID officials said.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 17 Oct. 2026
  • Constitutional protections against cruel and unusual punishment prohibit deliberate indifference to prisoners’ medical needs.
    — Jaquelyn Jahn, The Conversation, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of needs
Noun
  • While it was designed to bring nationwide uniformity and stability to college athletics, its deficiencies are manifold.
    — Bruce Svare, Sportico.com, 17 Oct. 2026
  • Commissioner John King's office previously said the March inspection found no violations, deficiencies or red tags.
    — Christopher Harris, CBS News, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of deficiencies
Noun
  • Tasked with shepherding his major stars through bombastic performances, Fern’s directing lacks focus.
    — Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 14 Sep. 2026
  • While Verse and Alex Wright will man the edges and Denzel Ward remains an elite anchor in the secondary, the front seven lacks proven game-disrupting star power, leaving the defense reliant on scheme and discipline to hold up.
    — David Troy OutKick, FOXNews.com, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of lacks
Noun
  • By the August meeting, shortcomings in the rollout were identified.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 18 Oct. 2026
  • Jenae and Shalanda walk Brittany through how our aging power grid - coupled with climate change, the strain of new technologies, and a lack of investment - exposes the systemic shortcomings that very well might leave all of us in the dark.
    — October 16, NPR, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of shortcomings
Noun
  • Over time, as the human side of the evolving machine-flesh dyad matured, WHEEP-3 shifted its attention to the silicon partner, offering trenchant critiques of the inadequacies of machine learning.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 9 Sep. 2026
  • Anna, the film suggests, admires her husband warts and all, perhaps because there’s an enticing authenticity in all his inadequacies and brutish ways.
    — Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 5 Sep. 2026
Definition of inadequacies
Noun
  • Those deficits, at 2-0 and 3-1, lasted for a collective nine minutes before Sporting responded.
    — Daniel Sperry, Kansas City Star, 14 Oct. 2026
  • Primary deficits in the largest economies remain substantially larger than before the pandemic, and governments face higher real interest rates and shorter debt maturities as defense spending pressures mount.
    — Anniek Bao, CNBC, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of deficits
Noun
  • These flexible funds are helping to cover research funding shortfalls at Cornell University, undergraduate scholarships at Georgetown University and general operations at the College of the Atlantic.
    — William Blomquist, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2026
  • But despite production rising to record levels in 2025, UBS nonetheless expects shortfalls to reach an all-time high next year.
    — semafor.com, semafor.com, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of shortfalls
Noun
  • The effort—along with the small imperfections that reveal a human hand—can become part of the appeal, potentially making a brand feel worth paying more for.
    — Tatiana Sataua, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2026
  • However, these fragile states can deteriorate through interactions with the environment and imperfections in hardware.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of imperfections
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“Insufficiences.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/insufficiences. Accessed 20 Oct. 2026.

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