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Recent Examples of underdeveloped
If picked too early, before the skin has fully hardened, the squash may not be sweet and could be underdeveloped.
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Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 12 Oct. 2025
In a show full of oversized versions of real-life people, Alma Reville is surprisingly subtle, but also remarkably underdeveloped, especially given the talent of the actress cast to play her.
—Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 4 Oct. 2025
From Peripheral to Strategic In China’s economic blueprint, the west has long been seen as a land of opportunity — rich in resources but historically underdeveloped compared to coastal hubs.
—Li Jun, Footwear News, 26 Sep. 2025
To embrace nativism in a global, connected economic world is to sacrifice prosperity for the sake of exclusion, just as the main effect of racial segregation in the American South was to leave the region impoverished and underdeveloped.
—Jamelle Bouie, Mercury News, 20 Sep. 2025
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Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 12 Oct. 2025
In a show full of oversized versions of real-life people, Alma Reville is surprisingly subtle, but also remarkably underdeveloped, especially given the talent of the actress cast to play her.
—Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 4 Oct. 2025
From Peripheral to Strategic In China’s economic blueprint, the west has long been seen as a land of opportunity — rich in resources but historically underdeveloped compared to coastal hubs.
—Li Jun, Footwear News, 26 Sep. 2025
To embrace nativism in a global, connected economic world is to sacrifice prosperity for the sake of exclusion, just as the main effect of racial segregation in the American South was to leave the region impoverished and underdeveloped.
—Jamelle Bouie, Mercury News, 20 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for underdeveloped
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Now, the 14-year-old organization is urgently seeking support to purchase 20 acres on the island’s eastern end at Pond Bay—one of the last remaining stretches of undeveloped shoreline outside the national park—pointing to its critical influence.—
Siobhan Reid,
Vogue,
11 Nov. 2025
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Researchers at Arizona State University have calculated that by comparing temperature changes over time in undeveloped desert to those in nearby metro areas.—
Joan Meiners,
AZCentral.com,
10 Nov. 2025
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The Mercurial backspin from November 9 to 29 in Sagittarius and Scorpio gets immense drama from Jupiter’s backward rotation.—
Lisa Stardust,
Refinery29,
7 Nov. 2025
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The system can add stitches in any direction, including forward, backward and diagonal, allowing users to produce complex shapes with varying stiffness across different sections.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
4 Nov. 2025
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“Underdeveloped.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/underdeveloped. Accessed 16 Nov. 2025.
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