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Wages have increased significantly, but persistently high inflation has undercut those gains, so real wages haven’t kept pace with worker productivity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

Companies normally have to compete for demand by pricing goods to undercut competition.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

And Dastmalchian, who portrays Bison with an emphasis on sniveling evil, struggles to quietly undercut the character’s cartoonishly menacing getup.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

Fears that SpaceX could undercut wireless rates and squeeze launch capacity led Potter to trim his assumed monthly price for AST SpaceMobile’s service to $12 from $15.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026

The Portuguese, hoping to undercut the Venetians, sought a route to the spice islands by sailing around Africa, and in the end they succeeded.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

These are hardly examples of the court showing TLC for criminal defendants, and it undercuts Thomas’ claims on Monday.

From Slate ● Jun. 2, 2026

But health concerns have helped power a solar backlash that undercuts efforts to broaden energy sources even as customer costs are rising.

From Salon ● Apr. 27, 2026

The 12% reduction to proposed schedules undercuts plans by United and American to add more flights at the hub.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026

“If you bring weak cases and you lose, it undercuts your credibility of being any good at your job,” Hochman said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2026

I generally prepare cavities the same as for non-cohesive gold, but a Tg filling may be held in a more shallow cavity and with less undercuts than for gold.

From Tin Foil and Its Combinations for Filling Teeth by Henry Lovejoy Ambler

This serves their goals of undercutting both their target’s work and the institutions they represent.

From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2026

Merch Traffic, owned by Live Nation, filed a lawsuit against counterfeiters in April, accusing them of undercutting Bruce Springsteen’s products with knockoff T-shirts and caps.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026

The Chinese challengers Seedance, Kling and Alibaba’s HappyHorse have rapidly closed the gap on cinematic realism and have upstaged their American rivals by undercutting them on cost.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2026

There might be an even bigger competitive threat in the form of Chinese AI entrants undercutting the entire market.

From Barron's ● Jun. 26, 2026

He was holding the Lombard back and shouting, “You offer a usurious rate! Forty percent! Forty! My uncle offered thirty. Thirty is reasonable! Thirty is standard! But thirty is undercutting now?”

From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz