underpopulated
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Human Geography - Middle School
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For investors skittish about jumping in, there are other underpopulated corners of AI to explore.
From Barron's • Dec. 29, 2025
“We’re starting in the most underpopulated portion of the route,” said Ethan Elkind, director of the climate program at UC Berkeley Law’s Center for Law, Energy and the Environment.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 21, 2024
Instead of moving 90,000 residents out of the overpopulated district and into the underpopulated one, the state swapped more than 50,000 residents into the overpopulated district and moved 140,000 residents out of it.
From Slate • Oct. 11, 2023
Similarly, mountain gorillas are so underpopulated that their inbreeding is literally warping their facial features, and elevating their extinction risk.
From Salon • Jan. 23, 2023
The closer victory came the faster we were shuttled around America in pursuit of a role to play in a drama which suddenly, underpopulated from the first, now had too many actors.
From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles
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