underfunded
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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If people want a quicker count, then push lawmakers in Sacramento to spend more on the consistently underfunded election offices that tally the results in California’s 58 counties.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 11, 2026
Funding for the UN's human rights work has long been chronically underfunded, but Turk said: "We are currently in survival mode, delivering under strain."
From Barron's • Feb. 5, 2026
On the ground level, this means community volunteer efforts like neighborhood environmental cleanups, helping food pantries distribute sustenance to families in need and volunteers assisting underfunded local libraries.
From Salon • Dec. 20, 2025
In fact, Chicago’s underfunded public pension system adversely affects its credit rating and also increases borrowing costs.
From MarketWatch • Dec. 3, 2025
By the 1920s, when Holmes was in the prime of his career, geology had slipped out of fashion–physics was the new excitement of the age–and had become severely underfunded, particularly in Britain, its spiritual birthplace.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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