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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The net result of this initial imposition and partial removal has been that the United States now imposes 25 percent tariffs mainly on products that arrive from Mexico with a high share of Chinese content.—
Keith Bradsher,
New York Times,
4 Apr. 2025
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Inside the temple, archaeologists found traces of an ancient scientific school, known as the House of Life, with toys and partial drawings.—
Aspen Pflughoeft,
Miami Herald,
4 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Box 115 was said to contain 15 folders of material from this unfinished work.—
Chris Heath,
Smithsonian Magazine,
8 Apr. 2025
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In taking over other unfinished projects, Brody has focused on rooftops, converting them from mechanical space or unused space into another increasingly popular amenity that today’s renters value.—
Joshua Stein,
Forbes,
18 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 16 Apr. 2025.
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