undershoot
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Absent this birth-death model, BLS estimates would typically undershoot actual employment growth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 11, 2026
“The risk in 2026 has always been skewed to further easing given the expected undershoot of the inflation target,” Deutsche Bank’s Chief European Economist Mark Wall said in a recent research note.
From Barron's ● Feb. 4, 2026
A runway safety area refers to an area adjacent to, or at the end of a runway, meant to limit damage to aircraft should they overshoot, undershoot or veer off the runway.
From BBC ● Jan. 22, 2025
"I would be happy to start cutting the rates when the inflation projection - so the outlook and not actual data - starts to undershoot our 2% target in a consistent manner," he said.
From Reuters ● Aug. 26, 2023
"Better to overshoot than to undershoot," added Aylward.
From The White Company by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
After a series of undershoots in the years following the 2008-09 financial crisis, policy would seek to exceed the 2% target—which it did readily.
From Barron's ● May 15, 2026
If a team undershoots its targets, it falls back quickly.
From BBC ● Mar. 5, 2024
Wall Street and world markets cheered below-consensus U.S. inflation on Wednesday, but they may not be so accommodating if Chinese inflation on Thursday also undershoots forecasts.
From Reuters ● May 10, 2023
The snippet we see of their idiotic vanity project, “The Striking Viking,” aims so low it undershoots satire by a mile.
From New York Times ● Jul. 5, 2018
Since regular jet flights started two years ago, no U.S. commercial jet has cracked up seriously on landing, but there have been perilously close undershoots and overshoots because of pilot misjudgment.
From Time Magazine Archive
In January, forecasters’ consensus vastly undershot the net gain of 130,000 jobs that the Labor Department initially reported.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 2026
The history of the building also captivated Brendan - it is an undershot watermill, which means water flows underneath the waterwheel, striking the paddles at the bottom.
From BBC ● Jan. 24, 2026
Global silver supplies undershot demand for a fifth year in a row in 2025, according to the Silver Institute.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 10, 2025
“The company’s September quarter results exceeded our estimates at the gross margin and Ebitda level even as revenue undershot slightly, driven by production challenges,” the firm wrote following Monday’s report.
From Barron's ● Nov. 25, 2025
The water is gelid, murky; down there, past where the sand drops away and it’s deep, there are old rocks covered with slime, sunken logs, crayfish, leeches, huge pike with undershot jaws.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
L&G’s core operating EPS is likely to grow 8% this year, undershooting the group’s guidance of 9%, according to Citi.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
But spending appeared to lose steam, undershooting expectations of economists surveyed by Dow Jones Newswires and The Wall Street Journal who instead expected growth of 0.4 percent.
From Barron's ● Feb. 10, 2026
Kroenke always told his development team that undershooting L.A. would be a huge mistake, that the opportunity here was immeasurable.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 24, 2025
"Overall, there's more undershooting than overshooting of fertility ideals," she says.
From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2025
Employers added 175,000 positions in April, the Labor Department reported Friday, undershooting forecasts.
From New York Times ● May 3, 2024
