How to Use undershot in a Sentence

undershot

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• The dogs’ jaws should be massive, square and undershot, with the lower jaw projecting in front of the upper jaw.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 June 2022
• The Fed targets an inflation rate of 2%, and over the last five years has consistently undershot that.
  — Josh Zumbrun, WSJ, 13 Aug. 2017
• My whole team kind of undershot, because no one expected this acclaim to happen so fast.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 30 Nov. 2022
• Wage growth could put longer-term pressure on prices, but it undershot expectations in data released on Wednesday.
  — Reuters, Fortune, 13 Sep. 2017
• Those bets have vastly undershot actual inflation rates this year.
  — Eric Wallerstein, WSJ, 1 Nov. 2022
• Stadia is a failing service that dramatically undershot Google sales estimates, and many of Google's promises made three years ago at Stadia's unveiling have not come true.
  — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 15 Mar. 2022
• Kohl's reported a quarterly loss and the department-store chain forecast a profit that undershot analysts' expectations.
  — Wsj Staff, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2023
• The grid operator’s 2022 Seasonal Assessment of Resource Adequacy demand report undershot what the peak demand would be.
  — Philip Jankowski, Dallas News, 3 May 2023
• Snap, still wrestling with an unpredictable advertising environment, reported first-quarter 2023 revenue that slightly undershot Wall Street expectations even as Snapchat’s user growth continued upward.
  — Todd Spangler, Variety, 27 Apr. 2023
• But wage growth has persistently undershot economist expectations.
  — Josh Mitchell, WSJ, 4 May 2018

Last Updated: 2 Oct 2024