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The four-lane bridge was completed in 2014 but its opening was delayed due to a lack of connecting roads and customs facilities on the North Korean side, according to South Korean news reports.

From Barron's ● Oct. 24, 2026

A key issue, the lack of apps optimized for the two-screen interior, should be addressed by top developers quickly.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

Many Americans lack financial literacy, so it’s important now more than ever for advisers to double as effective educators.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026

"They are very worried about the conditions that haematology patients currently have within the city hospital and the lack of isolation for patients whose systems are very, very vulnerable," she told the committee.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

Kate’s and Maggie’s bodies were placed in a public vault due to lack of funds.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock

He had furloughed people who handled such things during the partial government shutdown over immigration, and since he famously lacks patience, Hegseth sent a couple of flunkies to retrieve the historic object immediately.

From Salon ● Oct. 24, 2026

Seen one way, Roy’s talismanic manicure is an object lesson for her fiercest critics: all flash and no substance, evidence the 34-year-old lacks the “gravitas” to be among the state’s most powerful elected lawyers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

At the moment, the U.S. car industry lacks options below $30,000.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026

Yet it lacks the usual on-screen disclaimers about who funded it, so I reached out to Ramaswamy’s campaign to ask whether it had any involvement with the video.

From Slate ● Oct. 20, 2026

I stand and wonder for a while and conclude that she probably just lacks confidence, like me.

From "I Am the Messenger" by Markus Zusak

To test its importance, the team used genetically engineered mice that lacked TRPC1.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026

It is therefore no surprise that in a study of 25,000 Chinese students, AI use improved scores on homework while causing a significant drop-off in scores on exams when the students lacked technology access.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

There's a fearless nature to his play that can get the crowd going, and he was the one bright spark in a first half where Liverpool lacked any sort of rhythm.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

But what he lacked in engineering chops he made up with ambition.

From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026

But de Vries still lacked Mendel’s crucial insight—that bolt of mathematical reasoning that had so clearly illuminated Mendel’s pea-hybrid experiments in 1865.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

One key aspect she found lacking in off-the-shelf solutions was that they measured for a few decades but not for an entire lifespan.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026

Kindred Squared said the West Midlands had seen one of the biggest declines in school readiness in the country, with the number of children lacking skills such as toileting increasing year on year.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026

Startups are increasingly inking deals with unreliable providers out of desperation, like ones lacking proper security or weaker infrastructure.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

With government oversight of supply chains sometimes lacking, industry-led certification programs have sought to fill the gap and root out unsustainable, unethical or illegal practices.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

Indeed the hasty poem was lacking in music and halting in meter.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein