underrepresented
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In California, where the Latino population is more than 40% and growing, our universities have increasingly pushed to serve this demographic and other “first-generation” or underrepresented college applicants.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
Although the South Pacific is home to extraordinarily diverse populations, people from this region have historically been underrepresented in large genetic studies.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 14, 2026
Women were also sharply underrepresented, and the comparison drug, tislelizumab, isn’t used against lung cancer in the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 6, 2026
Marvell is an information-technology company, and that sector is underrepresented in the S&P 500 relative to its weighting in the S&P Total Market Index, which houses a wider swath of companies.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 4, 2026
You realised that quite a lot of types were underrepresented in Chambers Street, that feral and obscure and altogether monstrous forces must be at work, as yet altogether unassimilated by those neat administrative reorganisations.
From The New Machiavelli by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
