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Recent Examples of undeveloped
If the agreement falls apart, existing contracts mean the land could remain undeveloped for decades, potentially until 2044.
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Sarah Horbacewicz, CBS News, 27 Apr. 2026
The five-acre private villa estate offers nine startling low-slung beach villas which sit harmoniously in a coconut grove on an undeveloped stretch of volcanic beach on the northern shores.
—Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Apr. 2026
Formal community radio remains relatively undeveloped across Asia, though there have been some success stories.
—Encyclopedia Britannica, 23 Apr. 2026
The site currently consists of two vacant office buildings from the former CVS Health corporate campus, and undeveloped land belonging to Northwestern Memorial Hospital.
—Jennifer Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 20 Apr. 2026
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Sarah Horbacewicz, CBS News, 27 Apr. 2026
The five-acre private villa estate offers nine startling low-slung beach villas which sit harmoniously in a coconut grove on an undeveloped stretch of volcanic beach on the northern shores.
—Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Apr. 2026
Formal community radio remains relatively undeveloped across Asia, though there have been some success stories.
—Encyclopedia Britannica, 23 Apr. 2026
The site currently consists of two vacant office buildings from the former CVS Health corporate campus, and undeveloped land belonging to Northwestern Memorial Hospital.
—Jennifer Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 20 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for undeveloped
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Infrastructure as the Foundation of Scalable Innovation Across emerging markets, innovation often begins with solving immediate needs, and in Africa, those needs frequently rest within systems that are still underdeveloped or fragmented.—
Lyssanoel Frater,
USA Today,
1 May 2026
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How To Tell If An Avocado Is Underripe All avocados are hard when underripe and have an underdeveloped flavor.—
Aly Walansky,
Southern Living,
30 Apr. 2026
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From blazing stars and diminutive buttercups to uncultivated roses and sunflowers, the Midwest is blessed with many gorgeous native wildflowers.—
Erika Ebsworth-Goold,
Midwest Living,
20 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 order of operations felt as backward as the series of events that preceded it.—
Bennett Durando,
Denver Post,
1 May 2026
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That’s one of a number of cases in the paper where the researchers tried to reason backward about what the model was doing based on its output.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
30 Apr. 2026
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Everglades National Park Everglades City Experience Florida’s wild, untamed beauty at the largest subtropical wilderness in the United States.—
Lisa Cericola,
Southern Living,
23 Apr. 2026
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If this is the jungle, baby, then Johnette can’t get enough, walking with the untamed city, not running from it.—
SPIN Team,
SPIN,
20 Apr. 2026
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Portions of the trail were overgrown with castor bean and other invasives, but some park workers or kind volunteers are doing their best to keep it clear enough to pass.—
Jaclyn Cosgrove,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Apr. 2026
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Pair with overgrown ivy, a pot of tea, and hour upon hour of confessional conversation.—
Julia Harrison,
Architectural Digest,
29 Apr. 2026
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Buffers include everything from berms and lines of trees to prevent pesticide drift to 100-foot areas of untended land.—
Thomas Heaton,
Los Angeles Times,
10 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,
10 Apr. 2026
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Briery said spontaneous identical triplets are worth marking, no matter how rare.—
Ryan Brennan
April 29,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
29 Apr. 2026
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Before then, Venus and Uranus are lighting up your local world and social life, making the first two weeks ripe for spontaneous adventure closer to home.—
Steph Koyfman,
Condé Nast Traveler,
29 Apr. 2026
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Astronomers have always suspected these baby galaxies were busy, but new glimpses from the James Webb Space Telescope are showing them to be even brighter and larger than our wildest dreams.—
Paul Sutter,
Space.com,
4 May 2026
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The reality is, this has been their approach for far too long; it is not been exposed to the public, and a forensic audit of all increases, and all spending that comes from each of those additional taxes will expose corruption beyond anyone’s wildest imagination.—
Kaitlyn Schallhorn,
Oc Register,
4 May 2026
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“Undeveloped.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/undeveloped. Accessed 6 May. 2026.
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