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Recent Examples of undeveloped
His failure to delve deeper into these flashback scenes and situations is as striking as their undeveloped implications.
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Richard Brody, New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2026
Rather than simply buying the house, Gores traded a portfolio of Los Angeles–area assets, including undeveloped land in Bel Air, while retaining a financial interest in some of those properties, consolidating multiple holdings into a single trophy estate.
—Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 3 Apr. 2026
Additionally, Modi owns undeveloped property in Cupertino worth between $100,001 and $1 million.
—Alyce McFadden, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Apr. 2026
As Frisco nears build-out with about 13% of its land left undeveloped, city leaders will make crucial decisions about how to manage the traffic and attract companies while maintaining affordability and quality of life for existing residents.
—Angela Mathew, Dallas Morning News, 30 Mar. 2026
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Richard Brody, New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2026
Rather than simply buying the house, Gores traded a portfolio of Los Angeles–area assets, including undeveloped land in Bel Air, while retaining a financial interest in some of those properties, consolidating multiple holdings into a single trophy estate.
—Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 3 Apr. 2026
Additionally, Modi owns undeveloped property in Cupertino worth between $100,001 and $1 million.
—Alyce McFadden, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Apr. 2026
As Frisco nears build-out with about 13% of its land left undeveloped, city leaders will make crucial decisions about how to manage the traffic and attract companies while maintaining affordability and quality of life for existing residents.
—Angela Mathew, Dallas Morning News, 30 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for undeveloped
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There’s a satellite placed here or there around otherwise underdeveloped surroundings.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
3 Apr. 2026
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Corn that is overcrowded or planted too close together can lead to competition for resources such as water and nutrients, resulting in stunted, smaller, and underdeveloped ears.—
SJ McShane,
Martha Stewart,
3 Apr. 2026
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Down these uncultivated paths, Horace’s Lydia, Tibullus’s Delia, and Ovid’s Corinna had passed, but only Virgil’s Philomela remained.—
Sean Williams,
Harpers Magazine,
27 Jan. 2026
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The continent is home to 60% of the planet’s uncultivated arable land that is capable of sequestering immense amounts of carbon—yet only 16% of the global carbon credits market.—
Charlie Campbell,
Time,
30 Oct. 2025
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This step backward forces communities to rely primarily on police intervention — an approach that does not always address root causes and disproportionately impacts Black and brown individuals.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Apr. 2026
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But that other supplier would have to try to reverse engineer that particular dye—formulas for dyes and colorants were, in spite of being in service to the war effort, still proprietary—and backward engineering color from a finished product is a crapshoot.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
2 Apr. 2026
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Clay Trauernicht, a wildland fire specialist at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, warned for years about the risks of these untamed grasses.—
Evan Bush,
NBC news,
20 Mar. 2026
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For divers who want to bear witness to the major marine conservation area’s untamed natural beauty, liveaboard boats are the best way to log multiple dives and explore the area fully with local guides.—
Jasmine Ting,
Condé Nast Traveler,
20 Mar. 2026
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Trim overgrown shrubs and hedges.—
Lauren Jarvis-Gibson,
Sacbee.com,
6 Apr. 2026
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Winter can leave lawns patchy, beds overgrown and mulch looking thin.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
6 Apr. 2026
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Guerrero believes her sister wasn’t much better off at Villa Serena I than in her untended home.—
Carol Marbin Miller,
Miami Herald,
2 Apr. 2026
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Get Rid Of Clutter Knick-knacks, stacks of magazines, and piles of untended laundry can be magnets for dust.—
Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
26 Dec. 2025
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Street artists and fortune-tellers set up here daily, creating a scene that feels spontaneous every time.—
Lauren Schuster,
Miami Herald,
8 Apr. 2026
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With Venus and Uranus entering Gemini in your curious third house on April 24 and 25, sparks could fly through conversation, texts or spontaneous encounters.—
Valerie Mesa,
PEOPLE,
6 Apr. 2026
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Her work plainly belongs to this lineage of witchy writers, women whose deliciously corrupted scenes of home and hearth produce fear and wild laughter at once.—
Kristen Roupenian,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2026
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Sure, there were errant 3-pointers, and a wild reverse layup that was way off in the third quarter.—
Joseph Dycus,
Mercury News,
6 Apr. 2026
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“Undeveloped.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/undeveloped. Accessed 13 Apr. 2026.
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