- plural of shortcoming.
shortcomings
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Democracies do this as a matter of course, and we can, too, even if we modify these lessons, and learn from their shortcomings, for our own particular contexts.
From Slate ● Oct. 21, 2026
The kicking game hasn’t been the Rams’ lone problem, but it has magnified how thin the team’s margins are because of its other shortcomings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
"Instead, because of the company's shortcomings, a worker has sadly and unnecessarily been left paralysed."
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
The shortcomings are tied to the Bank Secrecy Act and anti-money-laundering compliance program.
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
In the spirit of their shipboard con game, they continued to spin out false histories for themselves, inventing brothers and sisters with plausible names, cousins with moral shortcomings, in-laws with facial tics.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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