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Recent Examples of Synonyms for underfed
Adjective
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Advertisement According to data from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), one in five children under the age of five in Gaza City is now malnourished.—
Juwayriah Wright,
Time,
30 July 2025 -
The Space Force, meanwhile, is a malnourished youngster.—
David A. Deptula,
Forbes.com,
16 July 2025
Adjective
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Factors like immune health and body fat play a role; if someone is already undernourished, their health will deteriorate quickly, after a few days without food.—
Angela Haupt,
Time,
31 July 2025
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Sticking with the example of hunger, the UN’s target number 2 out of 17, the inception of the Sustainable Development Goals came at a time when progress on the topic was good and only 552 million people in the world were estimated to be undernourished in 2014, down from 789 million in 2005.—
Katharina Buchholz,
Forbes.com,
31 July 2025
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“Underfed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/underfed. Accessed 19 Aug. 2025.
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