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Discover LudwigThe phrase "as if lacking" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation or feeling that suggests a deficiency or absence of something.
Example: "She looked at the empty plate as if lacking any appetite for the meal."
Alternatives: "as though missing" or "as if devoid of".
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The set's more open-ended moments felt hollow, as if lacking a motive.
It's as if, lacking faith in a difficult present, we're trying to enter and stage a sit-in at our own collective past.
It's as if, lacking a military outlet for their competitive energies, the Greeks inevitably poured them into these new athletic events.
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What I can't do an irrefutable presence, as if lack has a shape and a weight.
We are accustomed to Fincher's heroes being as obsessively smart as he is, if lacking his overarching patience, whereas Nick remains, to put it gently, a lunkhead.
That domestic experiment produced an idea of Brooklyn as offbeat and fashionable, if lacking amenities.
By day the skyline of Lower Manhattan looks much as it usually does, if lacking the contrails of passing jets, with the new World Trade Center rising.
But for the moment, it looks as if LACK is a real threat.
As if LACK of diversity could be valid.
Your mother has my wallet, or I'd ask one of the nurses". He tossed off the last sentence with studied nonchalance, as if lack of money was all that kept the nurses from doing his bidding.
The similar expressional change patterns of Mvl and ferritin through dZIP13 RNAi or iron feeding argue against the suggestion that dZIP13 might be involved in iron uptake because if dZIP13 were an iron uptaker, dZIP13-RNAi gut cells would have responded as if lack of iron.
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