underachieving
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Oh, we’ll still learn English and strive for the middle class and root for the Raiders or Cowboys or Broncos or some other underachieving NFL squad.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2026
The writer-director Jordan Firstman knows his new movie is part of a tradition: films where underachieving men are forced to grow up after a child arrives.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2026
As many England fans would testify, Gareth Southgate took on an England team that was seen as underachieving, and restored a degree of national pride to the game.
From BBC ● Dec. 28, 2025
Until January though he has to get a tune out of an underachieving, underperforming squad and work out his priorities for that next transfer window.
From BBC ● Nov. 28, 2024
As if Ethan—world’s most underachieving online creeper—had anything to do with this breakthrough.
From "What If It's Us" by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera
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