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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
Adjective
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In the 1930s, a family member bought the undeveloped sandlot.—
Demetrius Simms,
Robb Report,
30 Oct. 2025
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Linda Nickelson, who grew up in the area and owns 54 acres of undeveloped land on the north side of Oakhill Road, says bicyclists could also use the horse trail, rendering the tunnel unnecessary.—
Mary Divine,
Twin Cities,
27 Oct. 2025
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His inclusion could come across as a cynical ploy, a way of measuring social progress in a backward town.—
Grace Byron,
New Yorker,
22 Oct. 2025
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Whereas therapy looks backward to heal, and self-help often floats in abstraction, Space of mind looks forward, quantifying how identity, beliefs, and emotions evolve over time.—
Lyssanoel Frater,
USA Today,
21 Oct. 2025
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“Underdeveloped.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/underdeveloped. Accessed 5 Nov. 2025.
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