UNDERSOLD Synonyms: 41 Similar and Opposite Words

undersold

verb

past tense of undersell

as in monopolized

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Verb

Dishwasher racks are valuable real estate that shouldn’t be monopolized by your cat and his Fancy Feast.

— John Hodgman, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2026
At times of heightened tensions, the Houthis have used the Bab el-Mandeb as a geopolitical bargaining tool, disrupting the passage of trade in a similar fashion to how Tehran has monopolized the Strait of Hormuz since the start of the Iran war.

— Tiago Ventura, Time, 16 July 2026

Definition of monopolized

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In one inexhaustible untitled image from 1980, the couple sits in elegant dress at a candlelit table engrossed in each other’s company, while the young, shirtless son adjusts the channel on a television perched on the near side of the same table.

— Leah Ollman, Los Angeles Times, 25 Aug. 2026
After traveling to Oakland from Colorado, Lori Schott read aloud a diary entry from her daughter, Annalee, who died by suicide at 18 after becoming engrossed with Meta’s apps.

— Jakob Rodgers, Mercury News, 18 Aug. 2026

Definition of engrossed

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Dorsey was founded lab-grown, always marks its products as lab-grown, but has never marketed around the concept, Strachan says.

— Madeleine Schulz, Vogue, 3 Sep. 2026
Calcium is known for its important role in bone health, but it has also been studied and marketed for other health conditions.

— Jennifer Lefton, Verywell Health, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of marketed

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Trump had just flown back from a NATO summit in Ankara; he’d been smuggled out of Turkey via a catering truck and a decoy plane after Iranian threats on his life.

— Antonia Hitchens, New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2026
In 2025, Ukraine smuggled over 100 drones into Russia inside cargo trucks to conduct strikes that damaged or destroyed roughly one-third of Russia’s active bomber fleet and caused approximately $7 billion in damages.

— Seth G. Jones, Foreign Affairs, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of smuggled

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Some later speculated that their relationship was romantic, though the claim was never substantiated.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 4 Sep. 2026
Critics have long speculated that his depiction was satirical—that the first utopian literary work was, at least in part, dystopian.

— Boris Kachka, The Atlantic, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of speculated

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Shortly after Seattle's Super Bowl victory the team was formally put up for sale by Jody Allen, whose late brother, Paul, purchased the Seahawks in 1997 for $194 million.

— Andrew Greif, NBC news, 10 Sep. 2026
Uptown Charlotte tower sold for $36M at auction Spandrel purchased the former Wachovia Center at an auction for $36 million last year, after the previous owners defaulted on the property’s loan and the building went into foreclosure.

— Desiree Mathurin, Charlotte Observer, 9 Sep. 2026

Definition of purchased

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Francis has been the victim of another myth, peddled by Edward Daugherty—Martin’s father.

— Cynthia Zarin, Harpers Magazine, 1 Sep. 2026
Named after Blythe Street — a short thoroughfare flanked by overcrowded apartments — the crew had robbed, stole, peddled drugs and shot up rivals since the 1980s, seemingly untroubled by the city of Los Angeles’ attempts to defeat it.

— Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of peddled

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