major weakness

collocation in English

meaningsofmajorandweakness

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major
adjective
uk
/ˈmeɪ.dʒər/us
/ˈmeɪ.dʒɚ/
more important, bigger, or more serious than others of the ...
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weakness
noun
uk
/ˈwiːk.nəs/us
/ˈwiːk.nəs/
the fact or state of not being strong ...
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(Definition ofmajorandweaknessfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofmajor weakness

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The latter situation indicated anothermajorweakness.
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The secondmajorweaknessis common to all dynamic methodologies.
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This particular observation reveals themajorweaknessof the text.
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Themajorweaknessof this piece is the discussion of the assessment component.
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We see this as amajorweaknessin the dynamic systems approach.
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However, amajorweaknessin such configuration would be the quality of the training data.
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The sample size is amajorweaknessof the present study.
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Themajorweaknessof this study is the retrospective nature of the data.
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Themajorweaknessof the book, alas, is its ideological bias.
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Onemajorweaknessof standardised instruments is that they are insufficiently sensitive to change.
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Themajorweaknessof this study was the lack of objective health indicators.
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This is themajorweakness.
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That is amajorweakness.
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The book'smajorweaknessis its feel of a rapid thesis conversion undertaken in the complete absence of an editor.
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But themajorweaknessof the book is the author's tendency to generalize without clear evidential support.
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This signals amajorweaknessof the descriptive apparatus, in that it provides too many descriptions for the same object.
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The diversity of interest in agent technology can in one sense be seen as amajorweakness.
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Finally, he concludes that there is amajorweaknessin most if not all studies considered in his survey.
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That was clearly amajorweakness.
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There is amajorweaknessin the anti-discrimination provision.
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This is amajorweaknessof the policy.
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This is amajorweakness, especially with respect to fishing.
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The architecture we will describe cannot be used in the verification of programs with first-class code pointers, to name just onemajorweakness.
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With regard to our secondmajorweakness, our knack for polarizing opinion regarding chimerical questions such as the innateness of language can also be understood.
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