faute de mieux

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faute de mieux (f

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adv.

For lack of something better.

[French : faute, lack + de, of + mieux, better.]

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These patterns of nature are the not-so-hidden code of the iconic building, and perhaps they are so for want of anything more pressing, faute de mieux.

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Still, if the hypothetical costs of not acting are seen to be infinite, even the disastrous consequences of a preventive war may be seen as a case of faute de mieux.

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In Les ecoles historiques Thuillier, focusing exclusively on French history, concludes supporting, faute de mieux, a type of neo-positivism.

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