How to Use undershoot in a Sentence

undershoot

verb

• Like many sci-fi films, 2001: A Space Odyssey undershot the timeline a bit.
  — Meghan Herbst, WIRED, 16 July 2019
• Inflation has been holding near the Fed’s 2% target for most of this year after undershooting it for many years.
  — Nick Timiraos, WSJ, 14 Nov. 2018
• Because the Fed targets an index that tends to undershoot the CPI by about a third of a percentage point, this implies missing the central bank’s 2% target by a long way.
  — The Economist, 10 Oct. 2019
• Some 60% of economists saw greater risk that growth would undershoot expectations than overshoot over the next year.
  — Ben Leubsdorf, WSJ, 10 May 2018
• So you might be concerned about undershooting too much on the unemployment rate.
  — Nick Timiraos, WSJ, 11 July 2018
• If inflation undershoots the Fed’s target, that could cause the central bank to halt its campaign of interest-rate increases next year.
  — Eric Morath, WSJ, 29 Nov. 2018
• After long undershooting its predictions, data on Monday showed consumer prices rose the most in seven months.
  — Anirban Nag, Bloomberg.com, 13 Nov. 2017
• Fed officials met in May after data showed price gains finally hitting their target after undershooting for most of the last few years.
  — Bloomberg, latimes.com, 23 May 2018
• That 14 on the bench press, which undershot the number Brown predicted in interviews with teams and was the fewest among offensive linemen in Indy, wrecked Brown psychologically.
  — Andy Staples, SI.com, 14 Mar. 2018
• And inflation, which has been undershooting the Fed’s 2% target and gave policymakers another reason to cut rates, is poised to inch higher.
  — Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2019
• What is worrisome is not direct economic damage, but the fact that the Fed has missed its (arbitrary) 2 percent target in the same direction — undershooting — year after year.
  — Neil Irwin, New York Times, 14 June 2017
• Faced with an economy at or close to full capacity, the Fed can shift to worrying about inflation overshooting rather than undershooting, lifting rates above core inflation for the first time since 2009.
  — WSJ, 18 June 2018
• Combining any of these assets, especially for a return that the Yankees essentially got for one top reliever last year, would be undershooting their potential by a bit.
  — Jon Meoli, baltimoresun.com, 19 July 2017
• Given its previous inability to hit its inflation target, we should be concerned the Fed will undershoot inflation, not overshoot it.
  — Alexander William Salter, National Review, 28 Sep. 2020
• But the numbers have been undershooting that target continuously since 2012.
  — Neil Irwin, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2018
• Inflation has finally returned to the Federal Reserve’s 2% goal after undershooting it for nearly five years.
  — David Harrison, WSJ, 2 Apr. 2017
• The risk is that these sub-2% expectations become self-fulfilling and inflation over time will chronically undershoot.
  — Stephanie Flanders, Bloomberg.com, 10 Nov. 2020
• The last time Netflix generated such a brutal reaction was two years ago when the company drastically undershot its forecast by adding only 1.7 million subscribers for the second quarter.
  — Dan Gallagher, WSJ, 16 July 2018
• City Manager Jim Thompson stressed the importance of not undershooting revenue projections.
  — Lorraine Longhi, azcentral, 27 May 2020
• The Fed’s preferred inflation gauge, the Commerce Department’s personal-consumption-expenditures price index, breached the bank’s 2% target in February, after undershooting it for almost five years.
  — David Harrison, WSJ, 16 Aug. 2017
• That’s after his administration undershot an earlier estimate for this year.
  — Kamran Haider, Bloomberg.com, 26 May 2017
• With partners overproducing Saudi Arabia has consistently had to undershoot its quota.
  — The Economist, 7 Dec. 2019

Last Updated: 5 Nov 2024