drawback
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draw back
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Synonyms & Antonyms for drawback
Synonyms: Noun
debit, disadvantage, disbenefit, downside, handicap, incommodity, liability, minus, negative, strike
Antonyms: Noun
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Examples of drawback in a Sentence
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The trip sounds great, but cost is a major drawback. this plan has only one drawback: it's unworkableRecent Examples on the Web: Noun
But growing only a single variety of banana has serious drawbacks. — Matt Reynolds, WIRED, "A Fungus Could Wipe Out the Banana Forever," 19 Aug. 2019 Huantian Cao, a professor of fashion and apparel studies at the University of Delaware, said both have drawbacks. — Los Angeles Times, "America is obsessed with beef. But it has no use for hides, so leather prices plunge," 19 Aug. 2019 But growing only a single variety of banana has serious drawbacks. — Matt Reynolds, Wired, "A Fungus Could Wipe Out the Banana Forever," 19 Aug. 2019 This strong desire to take care of people can have some drawbacks though. — Carolyn Twersky, Seventeen, "Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello's Birth Charts Reveal If a Shamila Romance is Actually in Our Future," 11 July 2019 Dawson said this approach has drawbacks for individuals, because the leaders drafting the contracts will have to forecast all potential misuses of data. — Matt Mcfarland, CNN, "Alphabet's plans to track people in its 'smart city' ring alarm bells," 9 July 2019 But as last season progressed, the Warriors learned that even luxuries can have drawbacks. — Connor Letourneau, SFChronicle.com, "Why the DeMarcus Cousins experiment didn’t work out for Warriors," 29 June 2019 The anti-Kavanaugh candidates also had drawbacks, advisers said: Barrett has been an appeals judge for less than a year. — David Jackson, USA TODAY, "How a behind-the-scenes battle of Trump advisers ended with Kavanaugh as Supreme Court pick," 10 July 2018 But these fiber-optic devices have a remarkable drawback: Although they are inserted into the upper part of the small intestine through the mouth and constantly reused, they cannot be sterilized by the usual methods. — Roni Caryn Rabin, New York Times, "These Medical Devices Are Inserted Into 500,000 Patients Each Year — but Are Tough to Sterilize," 6 Aug. 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'drawback.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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