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. Flavio Volpe:

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

2. Ruth Kimmelshue:

   Despite our collective efforts, our industry will fall short of a 2020 goal to eliminate deforestation, the climate is changing and there is an urgent need to take action to end deforestation.

3. 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.

4. Anthony Banbury:

   We are going to exceed the Dec 1 targets in some areas. But we are almost certainly going to fall short in others. In both those cases, we will adjust to what the circumstances are on the ground.

5. President Barack Obama:

   I'm less concerned about the precise number, because let's stipulate right now, whatever various country targets are, it's still going to fall short of what the science requires.