Synonyms for falling short
fall·ing short

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1. falling short

   Synonyms:
   deficiency, inadequacy, deficit, shortcoming

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1. Salvador Soriano:

   They need to find a way to give jobs to the young. The message that the economy is rebounding doesn't reach people, they promised a lot, but they're 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. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.