Examples of underinvestment in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The reason that the U.S. doesn’t have the same train experience as Europe and Japan is simple: decades of underinvestment in infrastructure. — WSJ, 19 Aug. 2021 At the same time, the health-care system that was already extremely weak from decades of underinvestment has struggled to keep up with the Delta variant. — Timothy Mclaughlin, The Atlantic, 22 Aug. 2021 South Phoenix has also faced decades of underinvestment. — Megan Taros, The Arizona Republic, 11 Aug. 2021 Despite the importance of this skill set, many businesses still suffer from chronic underinvestment in negotiation. — Andres Lares, Forbes, 7 July 2021 Years of underinvestment by the private sector have left some majority-Black communities with a lack of retail options and key services. — CNN, 18 June 2021 The Times has struggled to make the transition to digital media, hobbled by years of management turmoil, layoffs and underinvestment when it was owned by Tribune Publishing. — Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2021 But Greene argues that communities like his have long experienced underinvestment. — oregonlive, 5 July 2021 The worry is that years of upstream underinvestment will hit just as global oil demand recovers to pre-Covid levels and non-OPEC supply peaks. — Dan Eberhart, Forbes, 28 Apr. 2021

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“Underinvestment.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/underinvestment. Accessed 22 Sep. 2021.

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