be deficient in
Example Sentences
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And even if they did - we would need to be deficient in magnesium in the first place to see a benefit.
From BBC • Oct. 24, 2025
This being said, I suspect that the first few generations of synthetic general intelligences will be deficient in ways normal adult humans are not.
From Scientific American • Jul. 21, 2020
Thriva told me what vitamins I may be deficient in; Atlas Biomed promises to help me “optimise” my ability to “synthesise” those vitamins.
From The Guardian • Sep. 22, 2018
Individuals may look well nourished and consume sufficient calories but be deficient in key micronutrients such as vitamin A, iron, and iodine.
From Textbooks • Sep. 6, 2018
If, on the contrary, the girl be deficient in beauty, the bosom of the mother is perpetually disturbed by gloomy forebodings, which no worldly advantage can effectually remove, no reasoning can sufficiently suppress.
From The Hindoos as they Are A Description of the Manners, Customs and the Inner Life of Hindoo Society in Bengal by Bose, Shib Chunder
