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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
underrepresent .
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Examples
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Some industry officials said the government study underrepresents the actual spread of broadband services.
Survey of online access finds digital divide Cecilia Kang 2011
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Some industry officials said the government study underrepresents the actual spread of broadband services.
Survey of online access finds digital divide Cecilia Kang 2011
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Some industry officials said the government study underrepresents the actual spread of broadband services.
Survey of online access finds digital divide Cecilia Kang 2011
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Note: Vertical scale grossly underrepresents the depth of the producing formation.
Energy 101: Hydraulic Fracturing - Vladimir’s blog - RedState 2010
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The official unemployment rate also drastically underrepresents the scope of economic suffering.
The Media Consortium: Weekly Audit: Save Jobs, Save the Economy 2009
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Also, "likely voters" underrepresents younger voters and black voters, both huge groups for Obama.
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That 1% underrepresents the support he had because of the 15% viabilty threshold.
Biden Offers Testament To Obama's Character And Toughness 2009
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The use of paleo analogues to infer future changes underrepresents the differences between past changes and those likely to occur in the future due to differences in the starting state of the environment and biota, and the different nature of past and likely future changes.
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The current system of protected areas underrepresents the habitat, and, based on the actions from 1997-1998, even protected areas will become susceptible to illegal and rampant logging and burning activities.
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Secret agents from the Paris police investigated this milieu in London and produced reports on thirty-nine expatriates — an extraordinary rogues 'gallery, which probably underrepresents their total population.
Finding a Lost Prince of Bohemia Darnton, Robert 2008
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