Antonyms for falling shortfall·ing short

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1. falling short

   Synonyms:
   deficiency, inadequacy, deficit, shortcoming

How to use falling short in a sentence?

1. Michael Phelps:

   It’s just frustrating not setting Michael Phelps up like I should have, what I want most is to be racing the competition I need to be racing. I want to race Ryan and those guys. It’s frustrating falling short.

2. Cory Booker:

   Make no mistake, this deal, while falling short of permanently eliminating Iran’s pathways to a nuclear weapon, succeeds in either delaying it or giving us the credible ability to detect significant cheating on their part and respond accordingly.

3. Foundation Garrett Watson:

   ( I) f it ends up falling short, for any reason really, you do end up in a situation where you got to find alternative funding for the permanent spending, i think that's the big wildcard there from a longer-term deficit perspective.

4. The US:

   President Biden is going to continue doing things that...( create) more predictability for American industry and allows them to plan and grow, but unlike President Biden predecessor, President Biden is going to hold China to account where China is falling short of its commitments. President Biden also believes that we have to use all our tools to make sure China's economic trade policies do not hurt American workers and businesses.

5. G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy:

   Nietzche started a nonsensical idea that men had once sought as good what we now call evil; if it were so, we could not talk of surpassing or even falling short of them.

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