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also undersize
as in diminutive
of a size that is less than average
though a football all-star in high school, he was just a mediocre, undersized player at the college level
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Tyler Nickel has made numerous clutch 3-pointers, and the combination of that trio of perimeter weapons with a pair of burly, undersized bigs has made Vandy really dangerous.
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The Athletic, 21 Mar. 2025
Jokic tends to command the floor against the undersized Warriors.
—Bennett Durando, The Denver Post, 23 Mar. 2025
This isn’t the same undersized Knicks team that was once vulnerable to physicality.
—Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 19 Mar. 2025
And finally, Egyptian leaders hoped to use the war to secure continued financial inflows that will stave off economic crisis at home, where one in seven people suffer from food insecurity and more than one in five children under five are malnourished and undersized.
—Lisa Anderson, Foreign Affairs, 14 Mar. 2025
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The Athletic, 21 Mar. 2025
Jokic tends to command the floor against the undersized Warriors.
—Bennett Durando, The Denver Post, 23 Mar. 2025
This isn’t the same undersized Knicks team that was once vulnerable to physicality.
—Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 19 Mar. 2025
And finally, Egyptian leaders hoped to use the war to secure continued financial inflows that will stave off economic crisis at home, where one in seven people suffer from food insecurity and more than one in five children under five are malnourished and undersized.
—Lisa Anderson, Foreign Affairs, 14 Mar. 2025
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“Undersized.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/undersized. Accessed 15 Apr. 2025.
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