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Discover LudwigThe phrase "almost wholly lacking" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is nearly completely absent or deficient in a particular quality or characteristic.
Example: "The report was almost wholly lacking in relevant data, making it difficult to draw any meaningful conclusions."
Alternatives: "nearly devoid of" or "practically absent from".
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The fact that the ads are plonky and almost wholly lacking in what agencies call "production values" does not matter a fig to the YouTube user.
To a greater extent than any developed economy, British governments have been almost wholly lacking in concerns when overseas companies set up shop in the UK or bought businesses here - because of the conviction that these overseas companies would bring decent management, useful competition and investment capital to this country.
To use Spreadbury's terminology, sugar and flour are acellular -- almost wholly lacking in intact cells.
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Customers almost wholly lack awareness of, or interest in, your other customers and your other priorities as a company.
Cost-benefit studies are almost entirely lacking.
Since his victory in the Scottish Labour leadership election last Saturday, his timetable has been carefully choreographed, with speeches, events and photo opportunities almost daily, exhibiting an organisational heft and dynamism that the party has been wholly lacking of late.
In charisma, he was wholly lacking.
The essential elements of agency are wholly lacking.
The proof here is wholly lacking in both respects.
"Glee" may love music, but often it abuses it, with performances wholly lacking grit.
Clearly then, adaptations for survival are not wholly lacking in the human species.
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