How to Use developed in a Sentence
developed
adjective- The younger plant has a less developed root system.
- The disease is almost unheard of in developed countries.
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Without source code to work from, each game had to be re-developed.
—Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 13 Nov. 2025
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Some of the storytelling is frankly less developed than the songcraft.
—Daniel D'addario, Variety, 23 Mar. 2023
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Measles, largely gone for decades in the developed world, has come roaring back.
—Veronique Greenwood, Time, 11 May 2026
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China is so far behind the developed world now that more catch-up growth is possible.
—Bill Conerly, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
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If most central banks among developed world are done raising rates, that would be good news for gold, Moya adds.
—WSJ, 20 Sep. 2023
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In the recent past the large developed and emerging economies of the world were synchronised in two ways.
—Mike O'Sullivan, Forbes, 28 May 2022
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Allen was also coming into the league far less developed than Maye.
—Doug Kyed, Boston Herald, 10 Sep. 2025
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However, even at a young age, some of these abilities are more developed than others.
—Kumar Mehta, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
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Life expectancy in much of the developed world more than doubled last century.
—Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 26 July 2022
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Farther South The coast grows less developed and arguably wilder as one travels south.
—Kathryn Romeyn, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Nov. 2023
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For the developed world, the prospect of a severe recession is deeply worrisome.
—Frida Ghitis, CNN, 3 June 2022
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In that past 15 years, interest rates have been pushed to near zero throughout the developed world.
—Adam Rowe, WSJ, 12 Aug. 2022
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For the more local beaches, which are often less crowded and less developed, head to the eastern coast of the island.
—Meagan Drillinger, Travel + Leisure, 1 Mar. 2024
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The country’s ratio of cars to chargers remains one of the most lopsided in the developed world.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 8 Apr. 2026
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The United States has long had a gun violence problem unique to the developed world.
—Time, 23 Oct. 2025
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Though she would have been cast as a maid, Lena always maintained that the character was well developed and not a stereotype.
—Donald Bogle, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Oct. 2023
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Much of the developed and developing world is keen to access this expertise.
—Vasuki Shastry, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2023
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In the world's least developed countries, every two seconds a baby is born into unwashed hands due to a lack of water.
—Kelly Parsons, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025
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That would link Medicaid prices to the lower ones paid in other developed countries.
—NPR, 10 Oct. 2025
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The base at Hirafu is by far the most developed, with more restaurants, bars, and nightlife than anywhere else nearby.
—Brent Rose, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Dec. 2022
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In the developed world, 1 to 2 percent of adults get swept up in its squall, with men over 30 and post-menopausal women most at risk.
—Jan Steyn, The Dial, 10 Mar. 2026
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Meanwhile, the food losses that plague the developing world occur at almost the same rate in the developed world.
—Nicola Twilley, The New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2022
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Pups are born more developed than other mice and multiple females take care of pups, giving them a higher chance of survival.
—Mallory Locklear, Hartford Courant, 7 Mar. 2026
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Chourio will face developed hitters with High-A Quad Cities.
—Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 16 June 2026
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The system is not perfect, but at least for the developed world, fishing is largely a sustainable endeavor.
—Steven Savage, Forbes, 9 Aug. 2022
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His jab-step game was filthy out of triple-threat situations, and his mid-post game was already incredibly developed for a teenager.
—Sam Vecenie, New York Times, 12 June 2026
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But Lee suspects that protons are good enough and will prevail as the more developed option for the foreseeable future.
—James Riordon, Scientific American, 29 July 2022
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In the developed world, where the infrastructure is robust, there is resistance to change, and even signs of regression.
—Pratap Khedkar, STAT, 28 July 2022
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