undershoot
verb
un·der·shoot
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undershooting
Definition of undershoot
1
: to shoot short of or below (a target)
2
: to fall short of (a runway) in landing an airplane
Examples of undershoot in a Sentence
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And inflation, which has been undershooting the Fed’s 2% target and gave policymakers another reason to cut rates, is poised to inch higher. — Los Angeles Times, "Fed cuts interest rate for first time since 2008, adopting risky new strategy," 31 July 2019 Like many sci-fi films, 2001: A Space Odyssey undershot the timeline a bit. — Meghan Herbst, WIRED, "A WIRED Booklover’s Guide to the Moon," 16 July 2019 Inflation has been holding near the Fed’s 2% target for most of this year after undershooting it for many years. — Nick Timiraos, WSJ, "Fed Tracking World Growth Worries, Chairman Powell Says," 14 Nov. 2018 Photo: Wang Ying/Xinhua/Zuma Press Japanese growth figures matched market expectations and Chinese exports and imports were better than expected, but German growth figures undershot investors’ already low expectations. — Jessica Menton, WSJ, "Dow Slips After Disappointing Retail Sales," 14 Feb. 2019 If inflation undershoots the Fed’s target, that could cause the central bank to halt its campaign of interest-rate increases next year. — Eric Morath, WSJ, "U.S. Consumers Step Up Spending to Start Fourth Quarter," 29 Nov. 2018 Polls significantly undershot both Bolsonaro and Haddad’s numbers, with the biggest polling firms putting Bolsonaro around 40 to 41 percent and Haddad around 24 to 25 percent. — Ryan Lloyd, Vox, "Pollin’ ain’t easy: why did Brazilian pollsters go so badly astray in 2018?," 26 Oct. 2018 The last time Netflix generated such a brutal reaction was two years ago when the company drastically undershot its forecast by adding only 1.7 million subscribers for the second quarter. — Dan Gallagher, WSJ, "Netflix’s Intermission Was Long Overdue," 16 July 2018 Faced with an economy at or close to full capacity, the Fed can shift to worrying about inflation overshooting rather than undershooting, lifting rates above core inflation for the first time since 2009. — WSJ, "No Need for a Tantrum Yet; The Fed Is Just Treading Water," 18 June 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'undershoot.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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