How to Use undercount in a Sentence

undercount

verb

• But even that grim total was thought to greatly undercount the dead.
  — Nathaniel Janowitz, New York Times, 24 Sep. 2020
• But both of these methods tend to undercount birds by up to 30 percent, researchers say.
  — Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 22 Apr. 2020
• But in broad terms, the Trump supporters were right — in key states, their votes were undercounted by pollsters.
  — Declan Walsh, New York Times, 15 Nov. 2016
• But those factors mean that the study may undercount the risk that fracking poses to unborn children.
  — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 13 Dec. 2017
• At the outset of the crisis, France also undercounted its dead.
  — NBC News, 14 Apr. 2020
• The testing guidelines almost seemed designed to undercount the spread.
  — Lawrence Wright, The New Yorker, 28 Dec. 2020
• The snapshot figure has the potential to overcount and undercount true Covid-19 deaths.
  — Denise Roland, WSJ, 10 Feb. 2022
• Chaldean leaders say the Census undercounts their size in Michigan.
  — Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press, 19 June 2017
• Those, rather than heat, can be what's listed on the death certificate, which is why official records tend to undercount them.
  — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2022
• Nepal has recorded half a million Covid cases and 6,000 deaths, numbers that experts believe deeply undercount the toll.
  — New York Times, 30 May 2021
• By using the new methods, the CDC calculated that the 2013 data undercounted the problem by about half.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 13 Nov. 2019
• Deaths caused by the coronavirus are believed to be undercounted worldwide, due in large part to limits in testing and the different ways countries count the dead.
  — CBS News, 12 May 2020
• Experts have long suspected that the United States badly undercounts the number of children who die from abuse and neglect.
  — Jessica Huseman, ProPublica, 18 Dec. 2019
• Formal complaints likely undercount the true extent of the practices.
  — Deb Gordon, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
• And that number undercounts the actual total of patients who receive the go-ahead, since a request can cover many patients, not just one.
  — WSJ, 11 Apr. 2017
• Around a third of the 12 million full-time college students in the U.S. live off campus, adding, perhaps, another 4 million names to the pool of students who could be undercounted as a result of the virus.
  — The Conversation, 23 Mar. 2020
• Even now, virus deaths number in the hundreds each day, and official data may seriously undercount the toll.
  — Nacha Cattan, Bloomberg.com, 29 Sep. 2020
• When customers’ meters undercount the amount of water used, utilities lose out on revenue.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 Aug. 2021
• If Ohio's population was undercounted in the 2020 census, the state could be shortchanged in highway money, too.
  — cleveland.com, 24 Aug. 2017
• That means the older report might have undercounted separations by quite a lot.
  — Dara Lind, Vox, 12 Oct. 2018
• The statewide figure likely sharply undercounts the actual number of cases.
  — oregonlive, 14 Mar. 2020
• Minorities, renters, young children and the poor tend to be undercounted; whites, homeowners and the affluent tend to be overcounted.
  — Janet Adamy, WSJ, 27 June 2019
• Progress against poverty goes undercounted as a result.
  — The Economist, 26 Sep. 2019
• Texas schools are largely funded based on who shows up to class, a measure with the potential to undercount students in low-income communities.
  — Corbett Smith, Dallas News, 5 Feb. 2021
• Fisher noted a few caveats: A lot of teens were concentrated in a single area near the stage, and the survey ended at 1 pm, potentially undercounting the number of teens and kids by a small amount.
  — German Lopez, Vox, 30 Mar. 2018
• Experts agree that the numbers undercount the true number of people who have been infected, given that many people have mild or no symptoms and never get tested.
  — David Hogberg, Washington Examiner, 19 Feb. 2021
• The report’s authors said the dollar figures undercount the actual total.
  — Heather Somerville, WSJ, 15 Sep. 2022
• The Census Bureau estimates that children under the age of 5 were undercounted by 4.6% - or by nearly 1 million.
  — Rich Exner, cleveland, 21 Feb. 2020
• If anything, Gerend said, the automatic counters undercounted by a slight amount.
  — Lynn Horsley, kansascity.com, 5 May 2017
• Some blockages may be reported more than once, but local officials contend that the database greatly undercounts blockages.
  — Niraj Chokshi, New York Times, 11 July 2023

Last Updated: 29 Oct 2024