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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?
From The Daily Beast
After coming up short three times, novelist Julian Barnes finally won the Booker Prize—and for a deeply wise and important book.
From The Daily Beast
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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