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Discover LudwigThe phrase "the insufficiency" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a lack or deficiency in something, often in a formal or academic context. Example: "The insufficiency of resources has hindered the project's progress."
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the insufficiency
noun
The lack of sufficiency; a shortage or inadequacy.
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The candidates' education, or the insufficiency thereof, came up again during the most recent Presidential election.
What does the prophet do, after all, but bemoan the insufficiency of words to express his idea of the divine?
And yet Milosz was always impatient with "the insufficiency of lyric", as the poet Donald Davie expressed it, and indeed the insufficiency of all art, deeply conscious of the unattainability of the reality that surrounds us.
"Carl's race, and my race, doesn't weigh much in whether or not I point out the insufficiency in Carl's record.
Unlike so many contemporary poets, Lowell never wrote poetry about poetry, or worried about the insufficiency of words to stand for what they signify.
Tom Kark, in his judgment on the insufficiency of evidence says that "the case would have to be based on evidence of very poor management".
The insufficiency of art, a truth wrung from his psychiatric practice, drives him.
She imagined Marise unpacking them in some room of flowery frivolity she couldn't clearly visualize and feeling a pang for the insufficiency of her own maternal care.
It can be owing to the insufficiency of light.
Abdelmoumen et al. [22] analyze the adverse effect brought by the insufficiency of nodes' storage.
However, the COD:N P ratio indicates the insufficiency of nitrogen concentration for aerobic treatment.
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