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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of underpromote.

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  • Most traditional publishers can't wean themselves from gambling vast amounts of money on "hunches" for books that may be perfectly decent but more often than not don't earn back their advances; they could no more abandon the broken system of guesstimated print runs, oversold and underpromoted books than they could abandon their Blackberries.

    John Oakes: This Halloween, I'm Going As a Book Publisher 2009

  • One other commonality: Both movies were scandalously underpromoted by the studios releasing them.

    GreenCine Daily: DVDs, 1/14. 2007

  • Yahoo doesnt have a pure play blog search offering (like google trys too or Technorati does) instead preferring to merge news and blog search into one vertical search underpromoted offering (their focus is on my2web/delicious integration - image a trifecta there to include technorati!!!! that would be hot)

    Archive 2006-05-01 Ben Barren 2006

  • Yahoo doesnt have a pure play blog search offering (like google trys too or Technorati does) instead preferring to merge news and blog search into one vertical search underpromoted offering (their focus is on my2web/delicious integration - image a trifecta there to include technorati!!!! that would be hot)

    David Berlind : Yahoo + Technorati Marriage Ben Barren 2006

  • Idiocracy: Mike Judge's latest, underpromoted film

    - Boing Boing 2006

  • We'll take a funny movie from wherever it comes, and this shamefully underpromoted, gloriously silly romp made me laugh harder than any other movie this summer.

    Summer Camp 2007

  • While the Take Back America conference has included two self-organized and underpromoted panels on impeachment, on Wednesday it included an official panel, well promoted and in an actual room on the topic of "Curbing the Imperial Presidency."

    Curbing the Imperial Presidency 2007

  • One rather underpromoted aspect of the US Mars missions is that they too are producing stereopairs.

    Archive 2004-02-01 Ray Girvan 2004

  • One rather underpromoted aspect of the US Mars missions is that they too are producing stereopairs.

    More Martian anaglyphs Ray Girvan 2004

  • He was underexposed and underpromoted when he played, and I'm very happy to see he's getting the acknowledgement and the recognition he deserves.''

    Boston.com Top Stories 2011

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