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insufficiently

ADVERB
barely
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It says it is sorry if patients felt insufficiently supported by its teams or experienced complications.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

"Our findings point to a country that remains insufficiently adapted to the changing climate," said Elizabeth Robinson, director of the Grantham Institute.

From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026

“It became clear that the project would be insufficiently competitive to meet our customers’ need for affordable, low carbon products,” Machteld de Haan, Shell’s downstream, renewables and energy solutions president, said at the time.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 2026

He’s insufficiently grateful to the people he owes, and insufficiently apologetic to those he’s wronged.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 25, 2026

There is, however, no sign—not the slightest fragment of evidence—that they had been struck by this, and Sprat went out of his way to criticize Bacon’s insufficiently critical approach to questions of evidence.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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