underdeveloped

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Recent Examples of underdeveloped The reality is that an underdeveloped supply chain and unfavorable economics are far larger factors. ArsTechnica, 27 May 2025 These bottlenecks are not down to a lack of ambition but rather structural weaknesses, including lack of regulatory certainty, underdeveloped infrastructure, and crucially a lack of offtake agreements to guarantee long-term market demand. Felicia Jackson, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025 Hundreds of millions of people in mostly underdeveloped countries have used it safely with minimal side effects, such as fatigue or diarrhea, for decades. Erika Edwards, NBC news, 9 June 2025 The operatic action and intriguing exposition is there, but this solid third installment winds up a good but not great effort, owing to a convoluted last act and underdeveloped supporting characters. Brian Truitt, USA Today, 9 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for underdeveloped
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Adjective
  • This park is currently undeveloped, and a master plan is in process.
    John Tuohy, IndyStar, 2 July 2025
  • All undeveloped land translates as opportunity, and one man who was building a business out of that proposition in 1967 was Ernest (Ernst) W. Hahn, a developer who’d just opened his first shopping mall in Santa Barbara.
    Nielsen Dinwoodie, Forbes.com, 3 July 2025
Adjective
  • What should have been his biggest weakness—his origin in a seemingly backward country—was his greatest strength.
    Ekow Eshun July 11, Literary Hub, 11 July 2025
  • Shaped like a human heart and engineered to actually beat, the Schiaparelli necklace created a dramatic and surreal effect on the runway, where it was showcased by a model wearing a backward red dress.
    Renan Botelho, Footwear News, 8 July 2025

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