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Free sign up"find wanting" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is used to mean that something or someone is not meeting expectations or standards. For example, "The supervisor's performance was found wanting and he was asked to resign."
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It wasn't just nurses Clwyd's respondents find wanting: "The attitude of the consultant varied between pompous, arrogant and condescending.
What the critics of traditional, government-run Medicare actually find wanting in traditional Medicare is that it basically is classic indemnity insurance.
But it is Hattie Morahan's wide-eyed, almost scarily febrile Annie that revises expectations in a performance suggesting a serial monogamist who likes the company of the very same men whom she is later destined to find wanting.
Private health care is sold as a luxury for the affluent and usually only covers hospital treatment, not primary care that is, visits to a doctor.It is British primary care, however, that many Poles find wanting.
I've spoken to Richard [Goddard, his manager] and I find wanting to call dad and relay the information because I know he would love to hear all the different ideas that I have.
Next came Mrs. Gooch's, and with it Sandy Gooch and her head for diet supplements and the merchandising of meat.* And so on, until Whole Foods grew to be the cornucopian gourmet grocer that we now either want or find wanting.
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All three have been found wanting.
Today's rules have been found wanting.
Its bureaucrats have been found wanting.
Yet it has been found wanting.
Are any of us found wanting?
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.
Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak
CEO of Professional Science Editing for Scientists @ prosciediting.com