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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of underweight.

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Examples

  • That assumption underweights the fact that kids navigate life with their emotional receptors running hot.

    Peggy Drexler: Kids and Recession: Sometimes, You Just Have to Laugh 2009

  • "We remain bullish on the market overall, and with overweights in the financials and cyclicals, and underweights in the defensives, the portfolio should continue to outperform a rising market," the broker said.

    European Stocks Start June on Upbeat Note 2009

  • Barclays Capital said that BP and Shell are its key underweights in the large-cap European oil sector, noting 30% outperformance over the past 12 months.

    Chile Proves Haven for Defensive-Minded 2009

  • Even where caucus-going initial preferences are known, because caucuses have lower participation than primaries, any count combining the two is mixing apples and oranges, and it inherently underweights the states with caucuses compared to those with primaries.

    A Sane Discussion Of Hillary And The Popular Vote 2009

  • Barclays Capital said that BP and Royal Dutch Shell are its key underweights in the large-cap European oil sector, noting 30% outperformance over the last twelve months.

    European Rally Peters Out 2009

  • Even if you try to estimate the numbers for caucus attendees in Iowa, Maine, et al., counting "popular vote" for caucus states greatly underweights them relative to primary states because participation is much lower for caucuses.

    McAuliffe: Hillary Is Winning Popular Vote Without Michigan 2009

  • Well I think I've done enough exposing of the hypocrisy and cowardice of psa and the chemically castrated Canadian Zionist lovers here, they come with ad hominen, I come back with BETTER ad hominem, and destroy whatever "points" the intellectual underweights throw at me.

    Because it amuses me, that's why. CC 2008

  • Well I think I've done enough exposing of the hypocrisy and cowardice of psa and the chemically castrated Canadian Zionist lovers here, they come with ad hominen, I come back with BETTER ad hominem, and destroy whatever "points" the intellectual underweights throw at me.

    Hello? Is this microphone on? CC 2008

  • Well I think I've done enough exposing of the hypocrisy and cowardice of psa and the chemically castrated Canadian Zionist lovers here, they come with ad hominen, I come back with BETTER ad hominem, and destroy whatever "points" the intellectual underweights throw at me.

    Hello? Is this microphone on? CC 2008

  • Well I think I've done enough exposing of the hypocrisy and cowardice of psa and the chemically castrated Canadian Zionist lovers here, they come with ad hominen, I come back with BETTER ad hominem, and destroy whatever "points" the intellectual underweights throw at me.

    Fucking liberal media. CC 2008

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