Synonyms for fall short
fall short

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1. fall short

   Synonyms:
   be defeated, come short, fail, lose, miscarry, miss

   Antonyms:
   achieve, attain, flourish, prevail, prosper, succeed, thrive, win

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1. fall short, come shortverb

   fail to meet (expectations or standards)

   Synonyms:
   come short

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1. • Disappoint

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1. fall short

   Synonyms:
   fail, be deficient

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1. fall short

   Synonyms:
   be deficient, be inadequate

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1. Steny Hoyer:

   We’re not going to fall short of a majority, so I do n’t really have to consider that.

2. Rich Hill -LRB- 6-8 -RRB-:

   I put that on myself with the walks, i don’t think that that puts us in a very good position. So, I’m just going to point the finger at myself and I think that’s what I will do every single time I fail. It’s not trying to look in another direction. You’ve got to look at yourself in the mirror and find out, hey, where did we fall short and how can we improve? That’s across the board.

3. Flavio Volpe:

   If you’re not asking what more you can do, we’re all going to fall short.”

4. Larry Hogan:

   We're still continuing to fall short in many areas, and this robust testing that we need across the country, we started to improve, and now with the virus spiking up we're running into shortages, waiting 10 days, lines -- it's looking a lot like it did back in March and April.

5. Steve Rosenthal:

   Personal returns alone fall short.