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underrepresented

ADJECTIVE
inadequately represented
Synonyms
STRONGEST
STRONG
WEAK
discriminated


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But they are underrepresented in research - a 2019 study found that they make up about 6% of research participants.

From BBC Aug. 21, 2026

And women still remain an underrepresented group, only making up 26% of AI hires in 2025, according to Kantenga.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 18, 2026

Stevens is counting on support that she says may be underrepresented in opinion polls -- from Black voters, older Democrats and people without college degrees.

From Barron's Aug. 4, 2026

“Cinelandia” isn’t the museum’s first foray into identity-based exhibitions centered on underrepresented populations.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 22, 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 H. G. (Herbert George) Wells



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