underweight

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Most of them are underweight and a majority are struggling to breathe on their own.

From BBC • May 18, 2026

The bank held the consumer discretionary sector at underweight.

From Barron's • May 8, 2026

Dan Pickering, chief investment officer of Pickering Energy Partners, puts it this way: “The more visible energy gets, the riskier an underweight position gets.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 7, 2026

The largest discrepancy appeared in the underweight group.

From Science Daily • Apr. 3, 2026

This particular summer afternoon, in a dusty geological library in Vienna, Sergeant Major von Rumpel follows an underweight secretary wearing brown shoes, brown stockings, a brown skirt, and a brown blouse through stacks of periodicals.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr