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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a wanting of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to express a lack or deficiency of something, often in a more formal or literary context.
Example: "There was a wanting of clarity in the report, which led to confusion among the team members."
Alternatives: "a lack of" or "a deficiency in".
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There has been a want of strategy.
The problem is a want of imagination.
Or maybe State's crime is a want of patriotism.
The problem is not a want of a solution.
Delay, he thought, would show a want of leadership.Grandpop psychologyHe seems to have been right.
Nigger might appear brave, but this was due to "a want of forethought".
But the downside to this suppressed emotion is a want of dramatic urgency.
But still, there is a want of feeling in the biographer for his subject.
"All of them want, of course, a picture".
Everybody wants a piece of JRR.
"What Mother would have wanted" was a combination of the two: a hypothetical want of the dead.
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