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underrepresenting

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  • verb Present participle of underrepresent.

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Examples

  • As soon as the fall TV shows were announced last summer, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People attacked the networks for underrepresenting minorities both in front of the camera and behind it.

    Battling The 'Whitewash' 2008

  • The closest thing available here is a list compiled by hobbyists who collect the names from only a small sampling of areas, underrepresenting the Turkish population for instance.

    Archive 2007-02-01 C N Heidelberg 2007

  • But they appear to be underrepresenting both of these populations.

    REALNEO for all - Regional Economics Action Links North East Ohio dwebb 2010

  • The ministry of Regional Cooperation has, for the last five years, been underrepresenting the Nuers in its hiring and deployment in overseas offices.

    Sudan Tribune : Plural news and views on Sudan 2010

  • Even accounting for and accepting the fact that Apple owners * probably* would not seek out a company like this to repair or service their product thereby vastly underrepresenting the true 'reliability' factor of each brand's respective products, the methodology does not compare apples to apples … sorry about that.

    Business and financial news - CNNMoney.com Philip Elmer-DeWitt 2010

  • It is a view that highlights conflict and ambiguity while underrepresenting the consensual and commonplace, the social and technical means of grappling with excrement.

    American Scientist Online 2009

  • It is a view that highlights conflict and ambiguity while underrepresenting the consensual and commonplace, the social and technical means of grappling with excrement.

    American Scientist Online 2009

  • By defining people who do certain kinds of labor as "middle class" whether they have the characteristics and privileges of middle class or not: by undercounting and underrepresenting the parts of the working class we don't want to think about: by dividing the working class into false regional factions: by elevating real (good, right-wing farmers, when you can find them) working class Americans into cardboard saints and derogating other working class Americans as underclass and gangbangers and foreigners and giving yet other working class Americans the job of being stupid and repulsive (see "Blue Collar Comedy") -- we create an atmosphere where hardly any American would say, "we are the working class and we're getting screwed as a class and we could do something about it as a class."

    Farm Fetish Follow-up Rogers 2007

  • I don’t know why you’re underrepresenting amaroK, Lydia =

    life at the end of the universe » Narwhal! 2008

  • Turnbull notes the disdain in which conventional samurai held these tactics and practitioners, but doesn’t seriously question whether the samurai sources he’s using might be misrepresenting these warriors or underrepresenting the use of these tactics.

    Nostalgia and Representations of Asia in Japan 2005

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