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Example sentences for: underdeveloped

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Top priority was now assigned to the modernization of China’s underdeveloped economy.
The OED2e lists about five dozen -ard words to describe people of unsavory character or underdeveloped intellect, and all but the handful above now languish in dusty disuse.
These two men were instrumental in orchestrating an amazing economic expansion that almost single-handedly converted the island from an underdeveloped backwater into a pace-setting industrial society.
The cover story attributes teen-agers' mercurial behavior to underdeveloped brains.
The same goes for (speaking of Catholics) all the medieval doctrinists in the Vatican who seem bent on imposing a third-world fertility program on every underdeveloped and uneducated native populace under heaven.