lack
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Example Sentences
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And yet it is precisely a lack of hyperbole or hysteria—a quieting control, one might say—that makes it so moving.
Economic grievances are in the forefront amid 42% inflation, a currency that has lost 40% of its value against the dollar since the June war, and even a lack of water and reliable energy.
He displays a remarkable lack of bitterness and enormous dignity, given his ordeal by newspaper.
But given the lack of profit incentives and regulatory and contractual hurdles, it is likely that the decision would be based on a high-cost rather than low-cost scenario.
Mars, by contrast, lacks active tectonics, which helps explain why its river systems are fewer and generally smaller.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
