insufficiently

Example Sentences

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

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 2026

Market indexes, the argument goes, are insufficiently diverse, exposing investors to dangerous risk and making index-fund investing an unjustifiable investment strategy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 22, 2026

Sharp price spikes, however, can “still pressure utilities that are insufficiently hedged, potentially leading to earnings volatility or delayed cost recovery,” he said.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 22, 2026

Researchers say, however, that these devices are essential to supplement official data that they view as fragmented and insufficiently independent.

From Barron's • Jan. 21, 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