underpowered
adjective
un·der·pow·ered
ˌən-dər-ˈpau̇(-ə)rd 
1
: driven by an engine of insufficient power
2
: having or supplied with insufficient power
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Laptops at this price range are as basic as can be, maybe not in features or software, but in hardware and specs, with minuscule amounts of RAM and weak, underpowered processors.
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Bestreviews, Mercury News, 4 May 2026
Dane Brugler’s analysis Canady is undersized and underpowered, which shows in both phases, but his urgent athleticism and decisive reactions help ease those question marks.
—Jesse Newell, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2026
All these moments are good for audience groans and there’s an enjoyable bad movie here for the seizing — that is when Cronin isn’t steering the action back to Egypt for an underpowered mystery thread involving a one-dimensional Cairo detective (May Calamawy) pursuing the root of the trouble.
—Joshua Rothkopf, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2026
Compared with the hair-raising language Trump has habitually used about immigrants in the US, his evocation of the Iranian menace was notably underpowered.
—Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books, 9 Apr. 2026
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Bestreviews, Mercury News, 4 May 2026
Dane Brugler’s analysis Canady is undersized and underpowered, which shows in both phases, but his urgent athleticism and decisive reactions help ease those question marks.
—Jesse Newell, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2026
All these moments are good for audience groans and there’s an enjoyable bad movie here for the seizing — that is when Cronin isn’t steering the action back to Egypt for an underpowered mystery thread involving a one-dimensional Cairo detective (May Calamawy) pursuing the root of the trouble.
—Joshua Rothkopf, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2026
Compared with the hair-raising language Trump has habitually used about immigrants in the US, his evocation of the Iranian menace was notably underpowered.
—Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books, 9 Apr. 2026
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