undersold

verb

past tense of undersell
as in monopolized

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  1. monopolized
  2. sold
  3. engrossed
  4. marketed
  5. smuggled
  6. speculated
  7. purchased
  8. peddled
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  • At times of heightened tensions, the Houthis have used the Bab el-Mandeb as a geopolitical bargaining tool, disrupting the passage of trade in a similar fashion to how Tehran has monopolized the Strait of Hormuz since the start of the Iran war.
    — Tiago Ventura, Time, 16 July 2026
  • Jurors found that Live Nation had illegally monopolized the live concert industry.
    — Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2026
Definition of monopolized
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  • Terminal 26, a new restaurant in Ponce City Market’s central food hall, is inspired by Thailand’s famous floating markets, where goods are sold from boats and riverbank stalls.
    — Henri Hollis, AJC.com, 30 July 2026
  • Twenty-nine single-family homes sold for $30 million or more in Miami-Dade in 2025, shattering the previous record of 15 homes in 2024.
    — Catherine Odom, Miami Herald, 30 July 2026
Definition of sold
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  • The same goes for pedestrians, who increasingly are glued to phones and engrossed in noise-canceling headphones.
    — Doug Turnbull, AJC.com, 5 July 2026
  • On July 19, Congress ordered that the Declaration of Independence be engrossed on parchment.
    — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 July 2026
Definition of engrossed
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  • Soon after those 2011 protests, Brand Modi was carefully marketed on television channels and burgeoning social media platforms as the redemptive opposite of the images, associations, and stereotypes attached to the corrupt and feckless system.
    — Asim Ali, Time, 1 Aug. 2026
  • Why Rucking Appeals To Women For years, strength training was often marketed to men through bodybuilding, powerlifting or military imagery.
    — Jeff Fromm, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026
Definition of marketed
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  • And investigators were trying to track down the people who smuggled them in.
    — Trevor Hughes, USA Today, 29 July 2026
  • The heart arrives smuggled in with the blade, in these monologues as text.
    — Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 25 July 2026
Definition of smuggled
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  • Others speculated information collected by the system is sent to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), though without citing any supporting evidence of that.
    — Tim Dunn, Boston Herald, 1 Aug. 2026
  • Other Giants arms, including starter Tyler Mahle who dazzled in a six-inning, no-run win Monday, have been speculated as trade candidates as the club looks to trade veterans in for younger talent that could aid in their rebuild.
    — Sean Campbell, Sacbee.com, 30 July 2026
Definition of speculated
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  • Apple employees were banned after a raucous night of celebrations, but were welcomed back decades later when Marc & Rose Hospitality purchased the hotel in 2011.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 July 2026
  • Concord, the largest independent music publishing company in the world, purchased the Rodgers and Hammerstein Organization in 2017 and now owns the rights to Rodgers and Hammerstein’s entire catalogue.
    — Chris Murphy, Vanity Fair, 29 July 2026
Definition of purchased
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  • El Sayed peddled the claim that Stevens was bought by corporate interests and Israeli lobbyists, whereas Stevens insisted her primary opponent was benefiting from advertising money spent by the Republican Party.
    — David Zimmermann, The Washington Examiner, 13 July 2026
  • Threading through all their stories is a wild bird – stolen from the forest, peddled in markets, caged in a home – whose restlessness becomes an emblem of every character’s longing to be free.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 25 June 2026
Definition of peddled
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