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Recent Examples of underprepared
Those impacts risk reverberating through the rest of these students’ lives and into our economy through an underprepared talent supply.
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Matt Gandal, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Cuts to staffing and funding are happening to many disaster relief programs at the federal level, leaving many feeling understaffed and underprepared.
—Center Square, The Washington Examiner, 28 Aug. 2025
For a group driven by a creative restlessness, a desire to distinguish themselves from both predecessor and peer, Geese felt woefully underprepared.
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 26 Aug. 2025
Obstacles in hiring, training dispatchers This patchwork funding for centers breeds an overworked and underprepared workforce.
—Danya Gainor, CNN Money, 24 Aug. 2025
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Matt Gandal, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Cuts to staffing and funding are happening to many disaster relief programs at the federal level, leaving many feeling understaffed and underprepared.
—Center Square, The Washington Examiner, 28 Aug. 2025
For a group driven by a creative restlessness, a desire to distinguish themselves from both predecessor and peer, Geese felt woefully underprepared.
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 26 Aug. 2025
Obstacles in hiring, training dispatchers This patchwork funding for centers breeds an overworked and underprepared workforce.
—Danya Gainor, CNN Money, 24 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for underprepared
Adjective
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Advertisement Even before the threat of a shutdown, lags in data collection have left the country unprepared for a major disaster.—
Simmone Shah,
Time,
30 Sep. 2025
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The report highlighted that companies are unprepared and lack the infrastructure and oversight required to foster a smooth collaboration between human employees and autonomous AI agents.—
Sawdah Bhaimiya
Aisha Ditta,
CNBC,
28 Sep. 2025
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Successors are unready when the call comes.—
Vibhas Ratanjee,
Forbes.com,
17 Aug. 2025
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Every hospital, power grid, pipeline, water treatment plant, and telecommunications system is on the frontlines, and most of the United States’ critical infrastructure is unready for battle.—
Anne Neuberger,
Foreign Affairs,
13 Aug. 2025
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“Underprepared.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/underprepared. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.
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