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short·com·ings

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How to use shortcomings in a sentence?

  1. Bob Cleaves:

    I don’t care if it’s wind, solar, biomass — they all have their shortcomings…for biomass, the most limiting factor about our industry is that there’s a finite amount of waste in the United States.

  2. Neeraj Agrawal:

    There's been a massive mobilization in DC to try to educate senators and members of Congress about the shortcomings of this language, but we do not have that much time.

  3. Vladlen Tatarsky:

    Each war reveals some drawbacks, shortcomings, or false experiences, experiences that need to be adjusted to the modern realities. So absolutely all spheres need reform.

  4. Josie Anello:

    I think it is all right to point out a person's faults or shortcomings or tragedies in their lives. It gives you a fuller, more honest picture, but there's a way to do it.

  5. The FDIC:

    Each plan has shortcomings or deficiencies, no firm yet shows itself capable of being resolved in an orderly fashion through bankruptcy. Thus, the goal to end too big to fail and protect the American taxpayer by ending bailouts remains just that: only a goal.


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