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View definitions for coming up short

coming up short

adjective as in lacking

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Can you fault de Waal for coming up short on some of the most challenging questions moral theorists have seen fit to investigate?

After coming up short three times, novelist Julian Barnes finally won the Booker Prize—and for a deeply wise and important book.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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