underinvest
Americanverb (used without object)
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Will the disconnect between spot prices and futures prices cause oil producers to underinvest?
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026
“If you underinvest in something, it is going to wither and die. And that’s really what I feel and see around me.”
From New York Times • Apr. 25, 2023
“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
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