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Recent Examples of undeveloped
El Dorado County supervisors have advanced plans for a potential new east-west road near the El Dorado Hills Business Park, located in a largely undeveloped area about three miles south of Highway 50.
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Ariane Lange, Sacbee.com, 18 Dec. 2025
But Pointer looks at the park, which is largely undeveloped, and sees a place that could again be a gathering place for children and serve as a community focal point.
—Kamal Morgan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 Dec. 2025
More than 383 acres of undeveloped land were donated to the city by land developers, McCann told The Center Square.
—Center Square, The Washington Examiner, 12 Dec. 2025
Building data centers in the desert The data center mega-site is located west of the White Tank Mountains on mostly undeveloped desert lands near the confluence of the Jackrabbit Wash and the Hassayampa River.
—John Leos, AZCentral.com, 12 Dec. 2025
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Ariane Lange, Sacbee.com, 18 Dec. 2025
But Pointer looks at the park, which is largely undeveloped, and sees a place that could again be a gathering place for children and serve as a community focal point.
—Kamal Morgan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 Dec. 2025
More than 383 acres of undeveloped land were donated to the city by land developers, McCann told The Center Square.
—Center Square, The Washington Examiner, 12 Dec. 2025
Building data centers in the desert The data center mega-site is located west of the White Tank Mountains on mostly undeveloped desert lands near the confluence of the Jackrabbit Wash and the Hassayampa River.
—John Leos, AZCentral.com, 12 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for undeveloped
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Some critics have written off Teyana Taylor's Perfidia Beverly Hills as a sexualized stereotype with limited screen time and an underdeveloped character arc.—
Kathleen Newman-Bremang,
Refinery29,
30 Dec. 2025
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Infant botulism is a serious illness that develops when an infant ingests spores of the botulinum bacteria, which then colonize the baby’s underdeveloped gut and begin producing a toxin.—
Brenda Goodman,
CNN Money,
29 Dec. 2025
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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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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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Seven plays later, Nacua was scoring his second touchdown of the first half — this time on a 5-yard backward pass by Stafford, which credited the score as a rushing touchdown to give the Rams a 14-0 lead.—
Joseph Person,
New York Times,
11 Jan. 2026
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The woman — wearing a backward cap, sunglasses, a flannel shirt with a hoodie underneath, sweatpants and boots — holds up a cellphone pointed at Ross.—
Julia Ainsley,
NBC news,
9 Jan. 2026
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Bold colors, mixed patterns, and playful textures give this manicure an intentionally untamed feel.—
Kat Suico,
InStyle,
8 Jan. 2026
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Though the wild, untamed north and forested center of Grenada are well worth a visit, most travelers stick almost exclusively to the sandy southwest coast.—
Carley Rojas Avila,
Travel + Leisure,
6 Jan. 2026
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The corridor cuts through the center of Santee, in an area where houses intersect with overgrown vegetation.—
Hannah Elsmore,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
14 Jan. 2026
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After taking a picture of an unusually overgrown kapok tree—which, my neighbors later told me, was near a property owned by a high-ranking government official’s daughter—plainclothes officers approached me.—
Armando Ledezma,
New Yorker,
14 Jan. 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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For more than two centuries, such burial grounds, especially those in the former American slave states, have often been erased or obscured – paved over by parking lots, built upon by highways or private development, or simply left unknown and untended.—
Joanna Gilmore,
The Conversation,
29 Oct. 2025
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Advances in facial robotics are moving beyond preprogrammed animations toward dynamic, spontaneous expressions, enabling robots to better communicate, build rapport, and integrate into human social environments.—
Jijo Malayil,
Interesting Engineering,
15 Jan. 2026
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Compared to the spontaneous, high-spirited, and witty heroines of Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, and Emma, Fanny Price is a prig.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
14 Jan. 2026
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But every point matters for the Sabres, and these 2 were enough to put them in the second wild-card spot based on points percentage.—
Matthew Fairburn,
New York Times,
7 Jan. 2026
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Those interviews can be conducted through wild-card weekend and are limited to three hours in length.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
7 Jan. 2026
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“Undeveloped.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/undeveloped. Accessed 22 Jan. 2026.
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