as in deficient
lacking some necessary part
an incomplete puzzle that has several pieces missing
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Recent Examples of incomplete
But despite the high price, Huntington’s 15th-century Bible was incomplete.
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Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Mar. 2025
The recent backlash over a bafflingly incomplete USA Today explainer on autism is just one example.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 20 Mar. 2025
While hospitals tracked cases and deaths within their walls, the broader picture of mortality across communities remained frustratingly incomplete.
—Dylan Thomas Doyle, The Conversation, 20 Mar. 2025
Sharp readers will recall that the USSR extended past Russia and Ukraine; this is a vision that is incomplete without looking afield to Estonia, Lithuania (both NATO members) and other former republics.
—New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 15 Mar. 2025
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Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Mar. 2025
The recent backlash over a bafflingly incomplete USA Today explainer on autism is just one example.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 20 Mar. 2025
While hospitals tracked cases and deaths within their walls, the broader picture of mortality across communities remained frustratingly incomplete.
—Dylan Thomas Doyle, The Conversation, 20 Mar. 2025
Sharp readers will recall that the USSR extended past Russia and Ukraine; this is a vision that is incomplete without looking afield to Estonia, Lithuania (both NATO members) and other former republics.
—New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 15 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for incomplete
Adjective
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Those studies show that supplementing with vitamin A in people who are deficient can lead to milder infections with diseases like measles.—
Alice Park,
TIME,
3 Mar. 2025
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Kraken was also accused of having deficient internal controls and record keeping.—
Jonathan Stempel,
USA TODAY,
3 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Drone strikes have continued through the weekend despite last week's apparent progress toward a U.S.-brokered partial ceasefire, though Kyiv and Moscow appeared to have different understandings of what that would entail.—
David Brennan,
ABC News,
23 Mar. 2025
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Ukraine is planning to send technical teams to discuss the details of the partial ceasefire.—
Samya Kullab,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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With Mercury retrograde in Pisces activating your creative fifth house of love, children and self-expression, you’re encouraged to revisit everything from unfinished projects to romantic connections that lack closure or never quite reached their potential.—
Valerie Mesa,
People.com,
29 Mar. 2025
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The court ruled that the ATF is permitted to regulate some weapon-parts kits and unfinished frames or receivers under the Gun Control Act.—
Paul Du Quenoy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
27 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Though fragmentary, the Romanesque masterpiece is a unique example of Anglo-Norman art at roughly 230 feet long and one-and-a-half feet wide.—
Francesca Aton,
ARTnews.com,
4 Mar. 2025
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That muon then created its own fragmentary debris, sparking a ripple of telltale pale blue photons dubbed Cherenkov radiation that passed over ARCA’s instruments.—
Meghan Bartels,
Scientific American,
12 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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The plume is made of three things: (1) steam - a lot of it; (2) ash - fine, fragmental pieces of silicate glass, not stuff from your backyard BBQ (which is burned carbon); (3) volcanic gases like CO2, SO2, H2S and others.—
Erik Klemetti,
Discover Magazine,
22 May 2011
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This would generate a cloud of hot gases and fragmental volcanic material, which could then move downslope gravitationally.—
Erik Klemetti,
Discover Magazine,
12 Apr. 2011
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“Incomplete.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incomplete. Accessed 6 Apr. 2025.
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