underrepresented

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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

Finance, currently the nation’s largest industry, is probably underrepresented in our rankings, as well.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 25, 2026

Prof Julie Hall, the vice-chancellor of London Metropolitan University, added the decision "hits students from underrepresented and lower income backgrounds the hardest".

From BBC • Apr. 15, 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)