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underpowered

/ ˌʌԻəˈ貹ʊə /

adjective

  1. lacking or low in power

    two-litre cars are underpowered

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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However Britain’s drama unfolds from here, a larger, darker pattern is at work for which Starmer and the Labour Party, inept and underpowered as they may be, are not responsible.

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His restrained direction keeps the brothers in check and underpowered.

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Some have questioned the use of public funding to support cell therapy research for heart failure treatment, due to poorly designed or underpowered clinical trials and very modest improvements in cardiac function in preclinical studies that are not always substantiated in large-scale clinical trials.

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On a really hot day, hovering over a riverbed in a broiling canyon, the underpowered machine acted a lot like a bigger, more powerful helicopter at higher elevations over a raging wildfire.

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The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw wrote: "There are some nice touches and an attractive new diversity worn lightly, but this is an underpowered and uncertain film."

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