underused

[US]/ˌʌndɚ'juzd/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adj. not utilized to its full potential

Real-world Examples

Nowadays our short-term memories are just being underused.

Source: Essential Reading List for Self-Improvement

Doctors say that drug is underused.

Source: VOA Special July 2023 Collection

Another method is to test the market. This is surprisingly underused.

Source: The Economist (Summary)

The TSA cannot continue diverting resources into underused PreCheck lanes while most of the traveling public suffers in unnecessary lines.

Source: Past years' graduate entrance exam English reading true questions.

She's played by an underused Gemma Chan.

Source: Fresh air

You have to fill in some of yourself employing that underused classroom device, the imagination.

Source: English TEM-8 reading past exam papers 2008-2022

Well, another quick win could  be to integrate airports into the system - particularly  those that are underused.

Source: Future World Construction

Not long ago, Royal Oaks Golf Club got a major mulligan of its own when the underused property was turned into a nature preserve.

Source: VOA Standard Speed May 2016 Collection

And from a very tiny, underused part of my brain — probably located at the base of my medulla oblongata where my subconscious dwells — comes the thought: he's here to see you.

Source: Fifty Shades of Grey (Audiobook Excerpt)

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