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has lacked

  • present perfect of lack (3rd person singular).

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Tax reforms and other incentives to encourage private-equity and institutional investors to fund scale-up businesses—as Sweden and France have done—could help boost the innovation that Germany has lacked.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 28, 2026

The stock has lacked momentum, with its last three week winning streak occurring in June–July 2025.

From Barron's Feb. 24, 2026

But experts say that the state program has lacked thorough oversight and accountability, allowing a small group of manufacturers to exploit the program’s robust endowments.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 9, 2026

Despite its importance, the hypothesis has lacked solid experimental validation.

From Science Daily Nov. 14, 2025

No race, indeed, has lacked its own interpretation of childbirth, and no phase of the process has failed to have attributed to it a supernatural significance.

From The Prospective Mother, a Handbook for Women During Pregnancy by Slemons, J. Morris (Josiah Morris)