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Recent Examples of underdeveloped
But signing big deals is difficult because the carbon credit market is underdeveloped, with only a small number of players making the bulk of high-quality carbon credit purchases.
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Eduardo Garcia, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
The condition develops before birth if a pregnant cat is exposed to the feline panleukopenia virus, leaving the kitten's cerebellum underdeveloped.
—Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Sep. 2025
Access to electricity in rural areas is often constrained by underdeveloped transmission networks.
—CNN Money, 9 Sep. 2025
Much of the cast is underdeveloped; an improbable misunderstanding about Mare’s sexuality is somehow stretched into a multi-episode story line.
—Inkoo Kang, New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2025
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Eduardo Garcia, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
The condition develops before birth if a pregnant cat is exposed to the feline panleukopenia virus, leaving the kitten's cerebellum underdeveloped.
—Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Sep. 2025
Access to electricity in rural areas is often constrained by underdeveloped transmission networks.
—CNN Money, 9 Sep. 2025
Much of the cast is underdeveloped; an improbable misunderstanding about Mare’s sexuality is somehow stretched into a multi-episode story line.
—Inkoo Kang, New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for underdeveloped
Adjective
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The company analyzed PropertyShark data and online government records to calculate the total acreage and number of parcels of undeveloped land throughout the 20 most populous American cities, ranking them from highest to lowest.—
Giulia Carbonaro,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Oct. 2025
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Two-thirds of the island remains undeveloped and largely unspoiled.—
Miquel Ros,
CNN Money,
7 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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It can be styled over a white T-shirt, or worn backward thanks to its new reversible design (created in 2024).—
Thomas Waller,
Footwear News,
11 Oct. 2025
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At the time, central Appalachia was widely depicted in the popular press as a backward, ignorant region whose mountainous terrain kept its people isolated, outside the flow of progress – a stereotype still common today.—
The Conversation,
The Conversation,
7 Oct. 2025
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“Underdeveloped.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/underdeveloped. Accessed 16 Oct. 2025.
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