shortcomings

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shortcomings

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plural plural of shortcoming England's World Cup dreams fell apart under a French onslaught on a night when their shortcomings were brutally exposed at the quarter-final stage.

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Closest in meaning: defect, abuses, ailments, anomalies, blemishes, bottlenecks, breaches, breakdowns, bugs, challenges, cons, constraints, cracks, defaults, defects, deficiencies

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@misc{shortcomings_2026,
  title = {shortcomings},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/shortcomings},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}