underdeveloped

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Recent Examples of underdeveloped Why So Much Hate feels too underdeveloped lyrically to come off as strong as other precocious teenage debuts like Joey Bada$$’ 1999. Lei Takanashi, Pitchfork, 27 July 2026 Ames’ Julianne is underdeveloped, her family life a conceit of the play rather than a lived reality. Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2026 An additional challenge for nuclear deployment is grid capacity, since large nuclear reactors often produce too much power for underdeveloped grids. Jenny Vaughan, semafor.com, 20 July 2026 Pick it too early, and the cloves will be small and underdeveloped. Michele Laufik, Martha Stewart, 17 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for underdeveloped
Recent Examples of Synonyms for underdeveloped
Adjective
  • The county owns the mostly undeveloped plot of land next to Aquatica.
    Ryan Gillespie, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 Aug. 2026
  • Friends of Big Bear Valley launched it in February to stop the Moon Camp development on what conservationists call the last undeveloped sliver of Big Bear Lake’s shoreline.
    Sydney Lake, Fortune, 4 Aug. 2026
Adjective
  • Reacher explodes into action, kicking over a table, executing a backward roll into the guy behind him while handcuffed, then redirecting that guy’s tranq gun against the other Men in Black.
    Chris Klimek, Vulture, 12 Aug. 2026
  • Passkey architects have been keenly aware of this difference, which is largely necessary for Windows backward-compatibility reasons.
    Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 11 Aug. 2026

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“Underdeveloped.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/underdeveloped. Accessed 18 Aug. 2026.

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