lack
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Smaller carriers also lack the bargaining leverage of major fleets to demand full surcharge protections from shippers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
He said the strike had damaged a heating main, adding that there would be a temporary lack of hot water in the north-eastern Desnyanskyi district as a result.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026
Desman Stephens’ response to his late hit on quarterback Dante Moore was an embarrassing display of poor judgment and a lack of respect for the game.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
The lack of pay increases are a tough pill to swallow for many Americans, especially lower- and middle-income households struggling with higher energy and living costs.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
The truth is Alaska is for real, and with a lack of knowledge, of understanding, this reality comes with sometimes great and sometimes lethal danger.
From This Side of Wild by Gary Paulsen
He is woefully short of minutes for his club, Bournemouth, and lacks sharpness and ruthlessness as a consequence.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
Newer generative AI systems can create footage that lacks many of the obvious artifacts associated with earlier deepfake technology, making them a more difficult target for detectors trained primarily on older forms of manipulation.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026
It lacks the quirky originality that made “Once” an unexpected Broadway juggernaut.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
He says the group lacks legitimacy without any Latin American or African representation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
Mary is like a child, so forlorn that she lacks the will to protest as others make decisions for her.
From "Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever" by Bill O'Reilly
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She encountered beaches typically teeming with tourists that were spookily empty, and fishermen unable to work because they lacked gasoline to go to sea.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
But Mr. Johnson had retail experience Apple lacked, and Jobs seems to have identified in Mr. Johnson an enthusiasm for the project that matched his own.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
In the past, courts have supplied this important backstop in other widespread policy challenges, such as the public health threats of tobacco use and the opioid epidemic, that lacked adequate legislative or regulatory responses.
From Slate ● Sep. 29, 2026
The same issues were rife as they lacked ruthlessness in front of goal and a mistake at the back gifted Villa an opportunity.
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 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
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"But what we are actually lacking the most right now is pilots. Of course, I hope the government can provide better additional allowances for these military pilots."
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
Now a new report filed in federal court has reaffirmed those earlier findings with on-the-ground detail previously lacking.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
Even if rates don’t go up, someone relying too much on fixed income could find themselves lacking the liquidity needed for an unexpected emergency expense, such as a medical bill or home maintenance.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026
Now lacking support from state attorneys general in a complex antitrust case, WGA dropped a parallel lawsuit to block the Paramount-Warner merger.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
But if the answer was no, then Briony was surrounded by machines, intelligent and pleasant enough on the outside, but lacking the bright and private inside feeling she had.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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