undersize
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Origin of undersize
Example Sentences
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Still, it has been undersize in the trading business in some key ways.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 29, 2026
Both the county and the provincial education office run grant programs to keep undersize schools such as Dochang afloat.
From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 2023
The undersize forward also applied suffocating defense while guarding Banchero, a 6-foot-10, 250-pound freshman standout.
From Washington Post • Feb. 7, 2022
“We have tried to underspend and undersize what was really needed to get over the top of the mountain,” the Republican governor told reporters during a Friday coronavirus briefing.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 27, 2021
The lance corporal looks around the room—the coal stove, the hanging laundry, the undersize children—with equal measures of condescension and hostility.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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