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as in diminutive
of a size that is less than average though a football all-star in high school, he was just a mediocre, undersized player at the college level

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Recent Examples on the Web Latu is an undersized light heavyweight, which won’t serve him well against Stirling. Trent Reinsmith, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2024 Is the 5-foot-10 speedster a game-breaking projectable talent or just an undersized wideout with wheels? Kyle Newman, The Denver Post, 10 Aug. 2024 Outside of Young’s 15 points, the U.S. post players dominated against Nigeria’s undersized roster outscoring them 44-28 in the paint. Emily Adams, Hartford Courant, 7 Aug. 2024 One vignette involves John Yates, a Florida fisherman who was convicted of getting rid of some undersized grouper under a federal law originally aimed at the accounting industry and the destruction of evidence in the Enron scandal. Mark Sherman, Fortune, 4 Aug. 2024 See all Example Sentences for undersized 

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“Undersized.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/undersized. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.

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