as in haggard
not getting enough food or not getting enough healthy food for good health and growth
undernourished children
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Recent Examples of undernourished
What’s happening within those impeccable compositions, however, feels like its suffering from an overabundance of business and undernourished storytelling.
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David Fear, Rolling Stone, 6 Mar. 2025
And the benefits would accrue in some surprising places—some 2 million children live in poverty and are undernourished in her home state of California, according to Saxon.
—IEEE Spectrum, 10 Mar. 2014
Disney has operated an undernourished subscription streaming service, ESPN+, for some years, and has committed to launching a full online app version of ESPN later this year, likely before the football season starts in August.
—David Bloom, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
The long-in-coming move this summer of the Worldwide Leader to a true streaming experience with all of its top-tier sports rights (ESPN+ has been a badly undernourished placeholder for too long) will quickly be successful, even at $25 per month.
—David Bloom, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2024
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David Fear, Rolling Stone, 6 Mar. 2025
And the benefits would accrue in some surprising places—some 2 million children live in poverty and are undernourished in her home state of California, according to Saxon.
—IEEE Spectrum, 10 Mar. 2014
Disney has operated an undernourished subscription streaming service, ESPN+, for some years, and has committed to launching a full online app version of ESPN later this year, likely before the football season starts in August.
—David Bloom, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
The long-in-coming move this summer of the Worldwide Leader to a true streaming experience with all of its top-tier sports rights (ESPN+ has been a badly undernourished placeholder for too long) will quickly be successful, even at $25 per month.
—David Bloom, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for undernourished
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Weinstein often looked haggard and out of it — unshaven, mouth ajar, eyes bleary.—
Phoebe Eaton,
HollywoodReporter,
22 Apr. 2025
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The scene makes Perkins crack up — Death looks tired and haggard, his job is never done (especially this week), and while the father-son may have escaped this round, their paths will cross in some unknowable way in the future.—
Chris O'Falt,
IndieWire,
21 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Programs that have been Mr. Gates’s priorities for decades were wiped out: vaccine research for malaria; deliveries of therapeutic food packets developed by the foundation to malnourished children; and African programs to deliver H.I.V. prevention technologies that the foundation helped invent.—
Theodore Schleifer,
New York Times,
30 Apr. 2025
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Listen to this article Three children, the youngest just 10 months old, were found malnourished in deplorable living conditions inside a Brooklyn home — with one tied to a bed with a piece of fabric, cops said Wednesday.—
Thomas Tracy,
New York Daily News,
2 Apr. 2025
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The Biden administration lowered prices on 10 widely prescribed drugs, such as the blood thinner Eliquis, which will take effect in 2026.—
Ken Alltucker,
USA Today,
13 May 2025
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Apple touts its 13-inch iPad Pro as the thinnest Apple device at 0.20 inches.—
Iyaz Akhtar,
PC Magazine,
13 May 2025
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“Undernourished.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/undernourished. Accessed 17 May. 2025.
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