underinvest
Americanverb (used without object)
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“It’s much more dangerous if you underinvest than if you over-invest, in my opinion.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
“This is a classic situation of where we tend to underinvest, and we tend to move on, and we tend to forget. And that would be a huge mistake,” Emanuel said.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 7, 2022
If this kind of theft happened too frequently, companies might underinvest in new technologies—or they might flee states that fail to enforce noncompete contracts.
From Slate ● Oct. 25, 2021
When we underinvest in children, we pay the price for the rest of their lives, through higher spending on remedial education, reactive health care and criminal justice.
From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2021
When we underinvest in our own human capital, when so many Americans are only marginally literate or numerate or suffer from ill health or dependencies, then our entire country suffers.
From New York Times ● Jan. 18, 2020
Europe has curbed refined capacity over the past five to 10 years, and other regions of the world, such as Latin America, have underinvested in their refining capacity, Selesky said.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026
“In the China context, we’re very underinvested in infrastructure and in the AI supply chain,” Joe Tsai, chairman of Chinese internet and AI giant Alibaba, said in June in Paris.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
But it’s also one, she said, that tends to be “put in a drawer” and is chronically underinvested in.
From Salon ● Apr. 19, 2026
A recent study found energy network operators had underinvested by £490m annually.
From BBC ● Apr. 10, 2026
Wealthy families are underinvested in the private companies supporting the boom in artificial intelligence, despite recognizing AI’s role as a global economic growth engine, a new report from J.P.
From Barron's ● Feb. 2, 2026
Even though massive spending on AI infrastructure has some investors worried, Boloor contends "the risk is not overinvesting, but underinvesting" in the transformative technology.
From Barron's ● Feb. 22, 2026
For Amazon, the risk of underinvesting is much greater than overinvesting, Horowitz believes.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 11, 2026
“I think the industry is underrating and underinvesting given the scale,” Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman told me the other day during our appearance at a Paley Center for Media event in Menlo Park, Calif.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2025
US Vice President JD Vance scolded the Nordic country for underinvesting in the territory's security during his recent trip to an American military base in the far north of Greenland.
From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2025
While companies have been criticized for spending big on buybacks at the cost of underinvesting in innovation, the repurchase of shares has been a contributor to equity market gains in recent years.
From Reuters ● Feb. 7, 2023
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