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
“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
One possibility of what went wrong is that the damage of the deep 2008 recession had lasting effects, both pulling some Americans out of the work force and causing businesses to underinvest in innovations.
From New York Times ● Feb. 24, 2017
The news came just one day after the latest BofA Securities monthly survey of fund managers showed that big institutions were heavily underinvested in bonds.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026
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From Slate ● Aug. 10, 2026
Caldwell said his initial assessment of the chain was that it had massively underinvested in the basics.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
"We've probably underinvested in the last decade and now we're trying to catch up so there's quite a lot of spending," says Frankie Mayo, an energy analyst from Ember Energy.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
Lores has said he thinks PayPal has underinvested in its technology platform and is falling behind other financial-services companies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
“Right now, AI companies are underinvesting in safety. A company could undergo an intelligence explosion, or lose control of its systems, without the public ever knowing,” Benton said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 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
Macron's administration has been criticised for underinvesting in Mayotte over a number of years.
From BBC ● Dec. 19, 2024
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