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The party had plenty of people, but a paucity of passion.paucity = insufficient amount
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Like Waterman and McCunn, he displayed a staggering paucity of common sense. (source)paucity = an insufficient quantity
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That's not to say that there aren't raging hormones in adolescents, but there's also a paucity of the cognitive controls that are necessary for mature behavior. (source)paucity = insufficient amount
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The carriers' men were able to supplement the paucity of the written words with a few more details. (source)paucity = shortage (insufficient in quantity)
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Glebnikov let his sentence trail off, not to imply the paucity of what he could do for the Count, but rather to suggest the abundance.† (source)
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With age there comes a paucity of stamina.† (source)
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No doubt there are plenty of reasons for the relative paucity of football research, but a big one is that inquiring minds have been discouraged by the messiness of the game.† (source)
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Given the paucity of Luna's so-called atmosphere.† (source)
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There's a real paucity of women.† (source)
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It was an error; but ought not the paucity of this intelligence to be taken into consideration?† (source)
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We often neglect the influence of the freedman before the war, because of the paucity of his numbers and the small weight he had in the history of the nation.† (source)
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Any inward debate Lydgate had as to the consequences of this engagement which had stolen upon him, turned on the paucity of time rather than of money.† (source)
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Honor becomes fantastical in proportion to the peculiarity of the wants which it denotes, and the paucity of the men by whom those wants are felt; and it is because it denotes wants of this kind that its influence is great.† (source)
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The root of the problem is believed to be a paucity of oxygen, compounded by high pressure in the pulmonary arteries, causing the arteries to leak fluid into the lungs. (source)paucity = an insufficient amount
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The Union is a great republic in extent, but the paucity of objects for which its Government provides assimilates it to a small State.† (source)
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After seven Everest expeditions, he explained, he'd finetuned a remarkably effective acclimatization Plan that would enable us to adapt to the paucity of oxygen in the atmosphere.† (source)
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