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Discover LudwigThe phrase "supposed shortcoming" is grammatically correct and commonly used in written English
It is used to describe a flaw or weakness that is believed or assumed to exist, but may not necessarily be true or proven. Example: Despite her supposed shortcomings in leadership, she was able to successfully guide the team to victory.
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Good, because now we can move on to her next supposed shortcoming.
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Maybe the players simply tired of hearing and reading about their supposed shortcomings.
Whatever the supposed shortcomings of Rhodes, those are pretty eye-catching figures.
The grilling he received in the Senate, whose job it is to confirm the president's important nominees, was out of all proportion to his supposed shortcomings.
Despite these supposed shortcomings, Chailly gave his first public concert in Padua, when 14, and by 25 he had become the youngest person to conduct at La Scala.
That coach, Bill Holden, then a Harvard assistant, still stirs gratitude in Lin, for studying his game and for ignoring supposed shortcomings: Palo Alto's modest basketball image and Lin's Taiwanese-American lineage.
His most draining experience came in Australia two winters ago, when he went 10 one-day matches without a fifty and Shane Warne had enough material about his supposed shortcomings to fill an after-dinner routine.
Microsoft cannot terminate a computer maker's license to use Windows without providing a written notice and allowing the computer maker at least 30 days to correct its supposed shortcomings.
Maybe – just maybe – telling women that they're making a mistake by not personally dealing better with public and social problems is just another way of selling – and materially benefiting from – our supposed shortcomings.
It should probably go without saying that the traditional print media also have a vested interest in drawing attention to the supposed shortcomings of their online rivals, and rarely fail to do so.
In light of all this, it is important to recognize that Chomsky's advances undercut both these supposed shortcomings of Nativism.
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