underrepresented

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The academy said 42% of this year’s invitees are women, 56% are from underrepresented communities and 53% are from 60 countries and territories outside the United States.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 24, 2026

"We're working hard to increase representation, so we can be even more confident in how this generalizes to the population at large, especially communities typically underrepresented in research."

From Science Daily • Jun. 13, 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

Finance, currently the nation’s largest industry, is probably underrepresented in our rankings, as well.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 25, 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)