How to Use underinvestment in a Sentence

underinvestment

noun

• Its armed forces, known as the Bundeswehr, have been the victim of years of underinvestment – but that is set to change.
  — Sebastian Shukla, CNN, 23 Mar. 2025
• Costs are rising, guest traffic is uneven, and underinvestment has left the brands trailing peers.
  — Jim Osman, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
• The country faces a shortfall of millions of homes, with underinvestment going back decades.
  — Jeff Stein, Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2024
• Years of underinvestment had contributed to its lack of success.
  — Luke Smith, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2026
• Its arms industry had been weakened by years of underinvestment.
  — Tamar Jacoby, Forbes.com, 14 Apr. 2025
• But plans to address the long underinvestment in neighborhoods southwest of downtown have yet to bear fruit.
  — The Arizona Republic, 19 Jan. 2021
• Decades of underinvestment across the country have left train and bus systems overburdened.
  — Carlos Waters, Vox, 18 Sep. 2018
• Chronic underinvestment in production now leaves the world at risk of sustained oil and gas shortages.
  — Vivek Ramaswamy and David Sokol, WSJ, 24 Oct. 2022
• And after years of underinvestment, school districts should boost funding for sports training in gym class and other clubs.
  — Editorial, Boston Herald, 13 Apr. 2026
• This stems from more than a decade of underinvestment, and a long history of mismanagement.
  — Nathaniel Parish Flannery, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024
• This means there’s going to be an underinvestment in training if left entirely to the private sector.
  — Big Think, 13 Oct. 2025
• Doubling down on that underinvestment during this critical time is proving to be the final act.
  — Paige Francis, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2021
• These challenges are the result of underinvestment in the civilian workplace.
  — Risa Brooks, Foreign Affairs, 9 Apr. 2021
• Today, neither is true, and decades of underinvestment have left the social safety net too thin to compensate.
  — Beth Shapiro, New York Daily News, 29 Mar. 2026
• After decades of underinvestment in roads, bridges, dams and travel of all kinds, citizens can see the consequences.
  — William A. Galston, WSJ, 26 July 2022
• The company was late to the direct-to-consumer game and had suffered from chronic underinvestment.
  — Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2025
• In general, many problems are the result of decades-long underinvestment in the power system.
  — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 7 Dec. 2022
• Years of underinvestment in conventional power while prices were low left oil and gas producers with short supply.
  — New York Times, 4 Nov. 2021
• The short answer is their underinvestment in preparation and planning.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 28 Dec. 2022
• The transport infrastructure of the north has suffered from decades of underinvestment.
  — The Economist, 18 Dec. 2019
• At the time, the loss of these supplies and underinvestment in new oil production received little attention.
  — Gregory Brew, Foreign Affairs, 13 July 2022
• At the same time, the real transportation lifeblood of the city—the subways, the buses, the commuter trains—is being sapped by underinvestment.
  — William Finnegan, The New Yorker, 24 June 2024
• But years of underinvestment in infrastructure on both sides of the border have led to consistent, toxic flows spilling over the border.
  — Tammy Murga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Mar. 2025
• Long-term, this crisis is a reflection of India’s chronic underinvestment in health care.
  — Nish Acharya, Forbes, 27 Apr. 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
• Public infrastructure, such as trains and schools, is showing the strains of chronic underinvestment.
  — Joseph De Weck, The Atlantic, 20 Mar. 2024
• Safety concerns, a persistent stigma, and decades of underinvestment have kept ridership low even as the network has grown.
  — Oren Peleg, New Yorker, 9 May 2026
• Others have sung a different tune on the likelihood of the sector’s success, pointing to decades of underinvestment and a global game of catch-up.
  — Rachyl Jones, semafor.com, 22 Oct. 2025
• The stocks of Germany’s armed forces, already run down by decades of underinvestment, have been further depleted by arms supplies to Kyiv.
  — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 18 July 2024
• Chronic underinvestment combined with a surge in demand for rail services has put DB under immense pressure to up its game.
  — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune Europe, 3 July 2024