Lack
Lack verb - Be without.
Ought
Both words in one sentence
- Nothing to do with a lack of a paper trail where there ought to be one, or with the vapor trails from an airplane's wings.
Source: Vapor Trail - So, just like the lack of an appearance on a "top ten" list had ought to not make a certain video game unworthy of your time, being on such a list had ought not to automatically make it worthy of your time either.
Source: Reviews Are The Gospel -
Barring an insane mortality rate or a massive lack of breeding (clearly not the case, given the children), their population ought to be in the tens of millions at the very least.
Source: Film / Star Trek: Insurrection
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