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- adjective
Insufficiently examined ;overlooked .
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Examples
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A big underexamined reason why the housing market got blown into a huge bubble is that ‘house’ used to mean building for people to live in but got conflated into ‘building for people and massive amounts of stuff’.
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From the beginning of virtual world scholarship, the “gods” of these worlds — the MUD creators, the game companies, the people with their fingers on the on/off switch — have been definingly important yet curiously underexamined pieces of the ethnographic puzzle.
June 2009 2009
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Detailing the underexamined conflict between the pro-Union Jayhawkers and pro-slavery Bushwhackers along the Kansas/Missouri border, the film focuses on friends Jack Bull Chiles (Skeet Ulrich) and Jake Roedel (The Ice Storm vet Tobey Maguire) as they wrestle with battle, romance and death.
Brad Balfour: Oscar-Winning Director Ang Lee Enjoys Two Retrospectives 2009
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Fear of the idiot's stigma is underexamined as an explanation of why people do what they do.
Don't Call Me Stupid, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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From the beginning of virtual world scholarship, the “gods” of these worlds — the MUD creators, the game companies, the people with their fingers on the on/off switch — have been definingly important yet curiously underexamined pieces of the ethnographic puzzle.
The Soul of a New Regime: Thomas Malaby's Making Virtual Worlds 2009
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Theodore Corbett has observed that the emergence of resort life is an underexamined historical transformation of the nineteenth century with far-reaching implications.
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In every case, media issues went unexamined, underexamined or studied with little sense of purpose.
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Even within the generally underexamined election law sub-field of election administration, voter registration is an especially underexamined topic.
Tokaji on Voter Registration and Election Reform Mary L. Dudziak 2008
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Even within the generally underexamined election law sub-field of election administration, voter registration is an especially underexamined topic.
Archive 2008-11-01 Mary L. Dudziak 2008
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In every case, media issues went unexamined, underexamined or studied with little sense of purpose.
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