How to Use undercount in a Sentence

undercount

verb

• But even that grim total was thought to greatly undercount the dead.
  — Nathaniel Janowitz, New York Times, 24 Sep. 2020
• But both of these methods tend to undercount birds by up to 30 percent, researchers say.
  — Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 22 Apr. 2020
• But those factors mean that the study may undercount the risk that fracking poses to unborn children.
  — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 13 Dec. 2017
• The testing guidelines almost seemed designed to undercount the spread.
  — Lawrence Wright, The New Yorker, 28 Dec. 2020
• Those, rather than heat, can be what's listed on the death certificate, which is why official records tend to undercount them.
  — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2022
• At the outset of the crisis, France also undercounted its dead.
  — NBC News, 14 Apr. 2020
• Chaldean leaders say the Census undercounts their size in Michigan.
  — Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press, 19 June 2017
• That means the older report might have undercounted separations by quite a lot.
  — Dara Lind, Vox, 12 Oct. 2018
• When customers’ meters undercount the amount of water used, utilities lose out on revenue.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 Aug. 2021
• Formal complaints likely undercount the true extent of the practices.
  — Deb Gordon, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
• Even now, virus deaths number in the hundreds each day, and official data may seriously undercount the toll.
  — Nacha Cattan, Bloomberg.com, 29 Sep. 2020
• The statewide figure likely sharply undercounts the actual number of cases.
  — oregonlive, 14 Mar. 2020
• And that number undercounts the actual total of patients who receive the go-ahead, since a request can cover many patients, not just one.
  — WSJ, 11 Apr. 2017
• If anything, Gerend said, the automatic counters undercounted by a slight amount.
  — Lynn Horsley, kansascity.com, 5 May 2017
• The snapshot figure has the potential to overcount and undercount true Covid-19 deaths.
  — Denise Roland, WSJ, 10 Feb. 2022
• Texas schools are largely funded based on who shows up to class, a measure with the potential to undercount students in low-income communities.
  — Corbett Smith, Dallas News, 5 Feb. 2021
• Areas and groups that are differentially undercounted are penalized, as the grant funds go to those places more fully counted.
  — Henry Farrell, Washington Post, 15 May 2017
• Deaths caused by the coronavirus are believed to be undercounted worldwide, due in large part to limits in testing and the different ways countries count the dead.
  — CBS News, 12 May 2020
• The report’s authors said the dollar figures undercount the actual total.
  — Heather Somerville, WSJ, 15 Sep. 2022
• Experts agree that the numbers undercount the true number of people who have been infected, given that many people have mild or no symptoms and never get tested.
  — David Hogberg, Washington Examiner, 19 Feb. 2021
• Minorities, renters, young children and the poor tend to be undercounted; whites, homeowners and the affluent tend to be overcounted.
  — Janet Adamy, WSJ, 27 June 2019
• Experts have long suspected that the United States badly undercounts the number of children who die from abuse and neglect.
  — Jessica Huseman, ProPublica, 18 Dec. 2019
• Nepal has recorded half a million Covid cases and 6,000 deaths, numbers that experts believe deeply undercount the toll.
  — New York Times, 30 May 2021
• Most experts agree that official case numbers probably undercount the true number of Covid infections in the country.
  — NBC News, 19 Aug. 2021
• Merchants may also commute from relatively far away, which (again, because of the false-consensus effect) leads them to undercount customers who live close enough to walk, bike, or ride the bus.
  — David Zipper, Vox, 11 June 2024
• Amid concern that minorities could be undercounted, the state of Michigan established a new committee this week to help count all residents in the census next year.
  — Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press, 14 June 2019
• If Ohio's population was undercounted in the 2020 census, the state could be shortchanged in highway money, too.
  — cleveland.com, 24 Aug. 2017
• Still, recent news that the death toll in their homeland was dramatically undercounted weighs on the families and on the La Causa community.
  — Jesse Garza, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 7 June 2018
• By using the new methods, the CDC calculated that the 2013 data undercounted the problem by about half.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 13 Nov. 2019
• While the scale is staggering, official reports dramatically undercount the problem, authorities said.
  — Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 14 Feb. 2026