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When e-bikes first expanded into backcountry areas, critics warned motorized assistance would bring underprepared users into fragile environments.—Kendall Hunter, Outside, 14 Feb. 2026 When academic standards are quietly lowered to accommodate underprepared students, the harm spreads to all graduates.—Andrea Mays, Oc Register, 8 Feb. 2026 Climate blind spots increasingly signal governance gaps rather than uncertainty and companies that fail to integrate climate risk into strategy, capital planning and disclosure are underprepared and mispricing risk.—Dianne Plummer, Forbes.com, 18 Jan. 2026 This was closely followed by concerns about supporting underprepared and underperforming students and poverty’s effect on student learning.—Robert Mitchell, The Conversation, 12 Nov. 2025 See All Example Sentences for underprepared