deficient
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Scores range from 0-19 points for Nature Deficient to 80-100 for Nature Utopia.
From Science Daily • Feb. 26, 2024
Deficient: Adaptation alone is not enough to ensure our survival—or as MIT professor John Sterman argues, “adaptation without mitigation is futile.”
From Slate • Feb. 27, 2020
Deficient compliance with existing law, or code provisions that do not reflect current storm threats, can seriously hinder rebuilding efforts after disasters strike.
From US News • May 31, 2016
Deficient in data In this awkward era of trying to cut medical costs while improving care, researchers are often faced with a paucity of data on which to base their calculations.
From Scientific American • Jul. 12, 2011
Deficient in blood and bone, the products of stuffy air, mean food, and casual or half-hearted parentage, often tainted with hereditary or acquired disease, the faces are; but, worse than all, how insignificant and indistinguishable!
From Essays in Rebellion by Nevinson, Henry W.
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