How to Use developed in a Sentence
developed
adjective- The younger plant has a less developed root system.
- The disease is almost unheard of in developed countries.
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Some of the storytelling is frankly less developed than the songcraft.
— Daniel D'addario, Variety, 23 Mar. 2023 -
In the recent past the large developed and emerging economies of the world were synchronised in two ways.
— Mike O'Sullivan, Forbes, 28 May 2022 -
Interest rates are still much higher in the U.S. than in much of the developed world, such as Europe and Japan.
— Sam Goldfarb, WSJ, 29 Sep. 2022 -
American vehicle deaths jumped to a 20-year high in the first part of this year; the U.S. leads the developed world in traffic deaths.
— Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 12 Oct. 2022 -
Bill Back Park — not a developed place but a long, open pasture fringed with pines — attracts swarms of birds and critters.
— Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 15 July 2022 -
If most central banks among developed world are done raising rates, that would be good news for gold, Moya adds.
— WSJ, 20 Sep. 2023 -
Second, a plant grown from a cutting will have a more developed root system.
— Chris McKeown, The Enquirer, 29 Apr. 2023 -
New Zealand has recorded 2,437 deaths during the pandemic, and had one of the lowest death rates in the developed world.
— Time, 19 Jan. 2023 -
For the more local beaches, which are often less crowded and less developed, head to the eastern coast of the island.
— Meagan Drillinger, Travel + Leisure, 1 Mar. 2024 -
The event takes place against the backdrop of the worst cost-of-living crisis in decades in both developed and many developing economies.
— Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 22 May 2022 -
In that past 15 years, interest rates have been pushed to near zero throughout the developed world.
— Adam Rowe, WSJ, 12 Aug. 2022 -
For the developed world, the prospect of a severe recession is deeply worrisome.
— Frida Ghitis, CNN, 3 June 2022 -
An Arizona mother said her 7-year-old developed severe tics, a problem one French study has tied to the drug.
— Benjamin Mueller, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2024 -
This all goes to a fundamental truth: America and the rest of the developed world have very weak white collar crime laws.
— Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 9 May 2022 -
Farther South The coast grows less developed and arguably wilder as one travels south.
— Kathryn Romeyn, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Nov. 2023 -
Meanwhile, the food losses that plague the developing world occur at almost the same rate in the developed world.
— Nicola Twilley, The New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2022 -
The base at Hirafu is by far the most developed, with more restaurants, bars, and nightlife than anywhere else nearby.
— Brent Rose, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Dec. 2022 -
Though she would have been cast as a maid, Lena always maintained that the character was well developed and not a stereotype.
— Donald Bogle, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Oct. 2023 -
One developed septicemia, an infection on the blood stream.
— Andrew Joseph, STAT, 1 Sep. 2022 -
The guy played very well in that playoffs, but he’s also been a very competent and developed quarterback.
— Mary Kay Cabot, cleveland, 16 Sep. 2022 -
South Korea has strict anti-drug laws and has long had the highest suicide rate among developed countries.
— TIME, 12 Jan. 2024 -
As of Friday evening, most of the visitors remained in the developed area of the park, with a few able to leave the park as crews managed to create makeshift roadways by moving mounds of gravel.
— Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2022 -
But Lee suspects that protons are good enough and will prevail as the more developed option for the foreseeable future.
— James Riordon, Scientific American, 29 July 2022 -
The result has been worsening allergies across the developed world, due to the overabundance of pollen-spreading males.
— Mike Damiano, BostonGlobe.com, 4 June 2022 -
In the developed world, where the infrastructure is robust, there is resistance to change, and even signs of regression.
— Pratap Khedkar, STAT, 28 July 2022 -
Life expectancy in much of the developed world more than doubled last century.
— Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 26 July 2022 -
The brothers have created a dough that, by their own admission, is perhaps puffier and more developed than the foldable rounds found on the streets of Lebanon and elsewhere.
— Tim Carman, Washington Post, 5 Dec. 2022 -
According to Sena, a sports bra style or a bralette is always a safe bet, although the latter might need to be more supportive if your child is very developed.
— Cheryl Fenton, Parents, 20 Mar. 2024
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