insufficient

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Here’s what financial planners know but many retirees discover too late: The portfolio number that seemed impossible to reach often proves insufficient for the retirement they’ve envisioned.

From MarketWatch

Long-distance drivers grapple with unpredictable schedules and pay as well as insufficient time at home.

From The Wall Street Journal

Observers say those forces remain insufficient for anything beyond a short campaign of a few weeks or a high-intensity kinetic strike.

From Los Angeles Times

More than 60% of girls are expected to have insufficient physical activity, and more than half are projected to have poor diets.

From Science Daily

One of the candidates has met with some directors, he wrote, but the response from the board was “weak and insufficient.”

From Barron's