underutilized
Americanadjective
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“With FY26 earnings impacted by delayed contract awards and underutilized delivery resources, we see these developments as early evidence of a recovery in implementation activity and improving operating leverage into FY27,” Shaw says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026
"With coordinated engagement between academia, clinicians, and industry, vanillin has the potential to progress from an underutilized bioactive to a clinically deployable component of next-generation wound care and regenerative therapeutics," says Professor Vasilev.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026
"There is definitely an increase in there and it is partially related to tariffs," she said, noting that in some cases automakers are reconfiguring plants or making use of underutilized capacity.
From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026
And, with the museum’s dim lighting, dated technology and underutilized areas, it can feel at times as if one is wandering in a past-its-prime shopping mall or in the forgotten corner of an airport terminal.
From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2026
Above was the sun deck, underutilized, the redwood rotting.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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