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Recent Examples of undeveloped
Not so different from undeveloped village life all over our world today—before the advent of modern technology.
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Literary Hub, 30 Sep. 2025
In the early days of the mall, Gruver and his friends would get on their bikes and cut across then-undeveloped fields to ride to Sunrise Mall.
—Graham Womack, Sacbee.com, 25 Sep. 2025
Imagine unzipping your womb to gently clean, bond with, feed, and love your baby, while that tiny, undeveloped fetus can already smell, feel, and return that affection—toward not only its mother but also its siblings.
—Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Sep. 2025
So in 2022, Chouinard and his family decided to transfer their ownership in Patagonia to a trust and a nonprofit organization that ensured the company’s $100 million a year in profits were used to combat climate change and protect undeveloped land.
—Preston Fore, Fortune, 22 Sep. 2025
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Literary Hub, 30 Sep. 2025
In the early days of the mall, Gruver and his friends would get on their bikes and cut across then-undeveloped fields to ride to Sunrise Mall.
—Graham Womack, Sacbee.com, 25 Sep. 2025
Imagine unzipping your womb to gently clean, bond with, feed, and love your baby, while that tiny, undeveloped fetus can already smell, feel, and return that affection—toward not only its mother but also its siblings.
—Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Sep. 2025
So in 2022, Chouinard and his family decided to transfer their ownership in Patagonia to a trust and a nonprofit organization that ensured the company’s $100 million a year in profits were used to combat climate change and protect undeveloped land.
—Preston Fore, Fortune, 22 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for undeveloped
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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
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The on-board display and system seem a bit underdeveloped for the bike's cost, too.—
Kevin Purdy,
ArsTechnica,
20 Sep. 2025
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After bushwhacking through uncultivated wilderness, the ground team found the woman, the Coast Guard said.—
Emily Mae Czachor,
CBS News,
11 Dec. 2024
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Heathcliff Heaths are areas of open, uncultivated land.—
Anna Moeslein,
Parents,
22 July 2024
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Inniss had a 10-yard return, but his biggest play was a backward pass to Lorenzo Styles on a punt that led to a 36-yard return.—
Cameron Teague Robinson,
New York Times,
5 Oct. 2025
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The team ran scenarios, including a backward push to induce forward pitching and a lateral force that caused rolling, and found the controller could stabilise the robot in both cases.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
1 Oct. 2025
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On either side of the cool, free-flowing river, hollows flanking the water conceal outtakes from another time—from prehistoric sites dating back thousands of years to untamed wilderness and waterfalls left wholly untouched.—
Katie Strasberg Rousso,
Southern Living,
19 Sep. 2025
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Those gardens, intended to be untamed, animating, and informal, are the work of Piet Oudolf, the creator of the High Line plantings, in New York.—
Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
15 Sep. 2025
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Dozens of animals have been mowing down overgrown vegetation at Jay Peak near the Canadian border.—
Jim Edwards,
Fortune,
1 Oct. 2025
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About four years ago, Houston lawn care specialists Martin Hernandez and his son Daniel went over to an elderly woman’s home to cut her overgrown lawn.—
David Chiu,
PEOPLE,
1 Oct. 2025
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After you're finished, dry the walls completely with your clean towels, being careful to avoid water streaks or soggy spots left untended.—
Mary Catherine McAnnally Scott,
Southern Living,
26 Aug. 2025
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Unlike Culex mosquitoes, which prefer breeding near larger sources of water such as untended swimming pools, culverts or detention basins, Aedes aegypti tend to breed in much shallower standing water.—
Denise Chow,
NBC news,
17 Aug. 2025
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Weekday dinners, spontaneous hikes and running downhill with their dogs are all part of the routine.—
Tereza Shkurtaj,
PEOPLE,
4 Oct. 2025
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Our results suggest that children are actually capable of spontaneous logical strategy discovery much earlier when circumstances require it.—
Celeste Kidd,
The Conversation,
3 Oct. 2025
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Each frame evokes the gauzy coziness and charm of peak-era '80s horror films such as Silver Bullet (1985), with its wilder elements anchored by a murderers' row of accomplished performers.—
Declan Gallagher,
Entertainment Weekly,
7 Oct. 2025
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Meanwhile, the energy costs involved in finishing the wall will take a brutal toll on wild species.—
Ganesh Marín,
The Dial,
7 Oct. 2025
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“Undeveloped.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/undeveloped. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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