undersize

Example Sentences

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“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 same could be said of Mitski Miyawaki’s work: Her songs mine rich, dark interior worlds, probing feelings of isolation, yearning and outsize ambition met with undersize rewards.

From New York Times • Aug. 20, 2020

Marlin worries excessively about Nemo because of his undersize “lucky fin,” a remnant of that scary prenatal attack.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 17, 2020

Along with normal antibodies, they had sifted out what appeared to be an undersize version of the molecules.

From Science Magazine • May 10, 2018

But they are undersize, and you can see the sadness in their eyes.

From "My Life with the Chimpanzees" by Jane Goodall