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In a separate resignation, hours later, Carns said he could not "in good conscience stand at the dispatch box and defend a level of investment I know to be inadequate to the task".

From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2026

That same level of weaker disclosures may prove to be inadequate to investors who were justifiably comfortable relying on Buffett’s presence.

From MarketWatch ● Dec. 9, 2025

Previous reports have also found mental health care services to be inadequate.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 2025

As a result, projections about the short-, medium- and long-term future of study populations may be inadequate.

From Science Daily ● May 21, 2024

The only retort that occurred to Nolan as at all appropriate he felt instinctively to be inadequate in point of elegance; so he judiciously refrained from uttering it.

From Linda Lee, Incorporated A Novel by Louis Joseph Vance


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