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deficiencies

  • plural
    of deficiency.
    deficiency
    noun
    the state of being deficient; lack; incompleteness; insufficiency.

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So, arbitrarily boosting testosterone is not good for young men without deficiencies.

From Slate ● Sep. 13, 2026

Fifa claims Uefa's argument "suffers from a fundamental defect" and "legal deficiencies".

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

"The fundamental root cause... resulting in a catastrophe, was the deficiencies and failures on the bridge of the M/T ALSU," it said.

From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026

One planned approach is stable isotope analysis, which could provide additional information about diet and help researchers better understand evidence of nutritional deficiencies.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026

Whatever was her own in the house, everything which she had acquired aside from her husband’s bounty, she caused to be transported to the other house, supplying simple and meager deficiencies from her own resources.

From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin