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After a series of undershoots in the years following the 2008-09 financial crisis, policy would seek to exceed the 2% target—which it did readily.

From Barron's • May 15, 2026

If a team undershoots its targets, it falls back quickly.

From BBC • Mar. 5, 2024

These dynamics could intensify later this week if U.S. inflation data for June undershoots analysts' already soft expectations.

From Reuters • Jul. 10, 2023

The snippet we see of their idiotic vanity project, “The Striking Viking,” aims so low it undershoots satire by a mile.

From New York Times • Jul. 5, 2018

Since regular jet flights started two years ago, no U.S. commercial jet has cracked up seriously on landing, but there have been perilously close undershoots and overshoots because of pilot misjudgment.

From Time Magazine Archive