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Example sentences for: shortcoming

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Surprisingly, only a few groups have previously addressed this shortcoming [ 3, 4, 5].
Leonardo's greatest shortcoming as a scientific thinker was, not paradoxically, his greatest strength as an artist: his eye.
Although this book contains much excellent material, it suffers from a most serious shortcoming, probably to be laid at the door of the publisher rather than the authors: it lacks an index of words and phrases (which might have fit neatly into the thirteen blank pages at the end).
If the quality scores are skewed to low values, then this should at least be mentioned in the discussion as a possible shortcoming of the meta-analysis.
But as the community's population surges in the next century, both political parties are likely to address that shortcoming.