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
On these men she bestowed official positions of high rank, and evidently desired to make great men of them; but Leicester proved to be deficient in brains, and Essex turned traitor, and was finally executed.
From Nature and Culture by Rice, Harvey
