underrepresented
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Although the South Pacific is home to extraordinarily diverse populations, people from this region have historically been underrepresented in large genetic studies.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 14, 2026
Marvell is an information-technology company, and that sector is underrepresented in the S&P 500 relative to its weighting in the S&P Total Market Index, which houses a wider swath of companies.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 4, 2026
He also argued that ranking applicants by SAT scores ends up disadvantaging high-achieving low-income, first-generation and underrepresented minorities.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2026
Black and Hispanic doctors are underrepresented relative to their share of the population, according to a 2018 study by the Association of American Medical Colleges.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026
You realised that quite a lot of types were underrepresented in Chambers Street, that feral and obscure and altogether monstrous forces must be at work, as yet altogether unassimilated by those neat administrative reorganisations.
From The New Machiavelli by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
