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fall·ing short

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of falling short in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of falling short in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of falling short in a Sentence

  1. Cory Booker:

    Make no mistake, this deal, while falling short of permanently eliminating Iran’s pathways to a nuclear weapon, succeeds in either delaying it or giving us the credible ability to detect significant cheating on their part and respond accordingly.

  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. Salvador Soriano:

    They promised a lot, but they're falling short.

  5. 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.

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