Synonyms for falling short
fall·ing short

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1. falling short

   Synonyms:
   deficiency, inadequacy, deficit, shortcoming

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1. Foundation Garrett Watson:

   ( I) f it ends up falling short, for any reason really, you do end up in a situation where you got to find alternative funding for the permanent spending, i think that's the big wildcard there from a longer-term deficit perspective.

2. President Biden:

   I’ve often said that we have only one true sacred obligation as Americans — to prepare and properly equip our women and men in uniform when we send them into harm’s way, and to care for them and their families when they return, yet for too many who are serving or have served, we are falling short.

3. Amel Roushdi:

   Security is very weak and they are falling short of their duty. How can someone plant an explosive inside the church? Why didn't they search him? we don't know the old security chief and we won't know the new one.

4. G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy:

   Nietzche started a nonsensical idea that men had once sought as good what we now call evil; if it were so, we could not talk of surpassing or even falling short of them.

5. Salvador Soriano:

   They need to find a way to give jobs to the young. The message that the economy is rebounding doesn't reach people, they promised a lot, but they're falling short.