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Recent Examples of undeveloped
There is no zoning on the land and the land use is undeveloped agricultural.
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Elizabeth Campbell, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2 June 2026
This effort is to concentrate only in the rural and undeveloped areas, which does not align with where the majority of the county’s population lives.
—Mary Divine, Twin Cities, 2 June 2026
Planned to be located on undeveloped land within a triangle created by the intersection of Ogden Avenue and 75th Street, the project would feature 185 townhomes within 38 buildings.
—R. Christian Smith, Chicago Tribune, 1 June 2026
The film’s themes of creative frustration and unmet potential are fruitful and fascinating but are left undeveloped, and the movie is painfully short on psychology.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 29 May 2026
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Elizabeth Campbell, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2 June 2026
This effort is to concentrate only in the rural and undeveloped areas, which does not align with where the majority of the county’s population lives.
—Mary Divine, Twin Cities, 2 June 2026
Planned to be located on undeveloped land within a triangle created by the intersection of Ogden Avenue and 75th Street, the project would feature 185 townhomes within 38 buildings.
—R. Christian Smith, Chicago Tribune, 1 June 2026
The film’s themes of creative frustration and unmet potential are fruitful and fascinating but are left undeveloped, and the movie is painfully short on psychology.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 29 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for undeveloped
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In an underdeveloped twist, Clark persuades his skeptical assistant, Kat (Lukita Maxwell), and her more gullible boyfriend, Bobby (Finn Bennett), to enter the Backrooms with him, armed with Bobby’s camcorder.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
31 May 2026
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Nine Inch Nails’ The Downward Spiral and Soundgarden’s Superunknown were released on the same day in March 1994, and both blew my underdeveloped 12-year-old mind as two of the most dense, ambitious, and rewarding alternative rock albums of the era.—
Al Shipley,
SPIN,
29 May 2026
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From blazing stars and diminutive buttercups to uncultivated roses and sunflowers, the Midwest is blessed with many gorgeous native wildflowers.—
Erika Ebsworth-Goold,
Midwest Living,
20 Apr. 2026
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Down these uncultivated paths, Horace’s Lydia, Tibullus’s Delia, and Ovid’s Corinna had passed, but only Virgil’s Philomela remained.—
Sean Williams,
Harpers Magazine,
27 Jan. 2026
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Michal Strahilevitz, a professor of marketing at Saint Mary's College of California who studies business ethics, thinks the whole compensation framework is backward.—
Christopher Elliott,
USA Today,
29 May 2026
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Sustained excellence rests on timely, decision‑relevant data that enables early action, not backward reporting, and clear ownership from strategy through execution, ensuring accountability sits with impact.—
Daniah Robertson,
Forbes.com,
26 May 2026
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Here, against the intimate interiority of this elegant narrative, untamed urges clash with Confucian ideals of filial piety and Buddhist undertones of the suffering caused by worldly attachments.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 May 2026
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The untamed beauty of nature takes center stage in the spring 2027 campaign images captured by Ami Vitale, the National Geographic explorer at large, photographer and filmmaker.—
Martino Carrera,
Footwear News,
26 May 2026
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Wear long clothes when outside, use bug spray that contains DEET to repel ticks, stay out of overgrown grass or brush and check for ticks immediately after being out in nature.—
Dan Simms,
USA Today,
4 June 2026
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Additionally, make sure to lightly stomp before heading into overgrown areas, as this helps alert any snakes snoozing in the shade of your presence.—
Jaclyn Cosgrove,
Los Angeles Times,
4 June 2026
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To leave a floppy disk untended for twenty years does not permit one to pick it up later and reminisce, the way a letter or a photograph does.—
Wyatt Williams,
Harpers Magazine,
26 May 2026
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But there’s a difference between a meadow-style front lawn and one that’s simply overgrown and left untended.—
Michelle Mastro,
The Spruce,
17 May 2026
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The right pair of shorts or cropped pants can keep you cool and comfortable on long walks to explore new neighborhoods, lazy afternoons at outdoor cafes, hikes to a waterfall or outlook, and spontaneous detours to the beach.—
Robin Raven,
Travel + Leisure,
3 June 2026
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That instinct toward image-as-communication shapes the film’s central tension, between the deliberate, enduring photographs made at father-in-law Makoto’s traditional photo studio and the spontaneous clips Yuta fires off on his phone.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
2 June 2026
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From branches above her is released a sudden shower of ash keys, which flutter downwards, whirring in circles, until their wild flight is put to a stop by meeting the water’s surface, where they are apprehended and whisked away downstream.—
Maggie O’Farrell,
Literary Hub,
2 June 2026
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Keeping in that spirit, small inn-like touches, including breakfast and common spaces (with a pool deck to come in 2025), make this a welcome new gathering place for the area sandwiched between the center of town’s climbing roses and some of the island’s most popular, wild beaches.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
2 June 2026
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