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undertheorize

Verb CEFR C1

Definitions

To theorize insufficiently.

Examples

“While Sharp acknowledges creative nonviolent intervention as a technique of nonviolent action, he undertheorizes its centrality for promoting political change⟳.”
“While Hutcheon stresses that irony cannot actively create⟳ communities, that they must exist⟳ prior to the enunciation, she undertheorizes the potential of making members of existing discursive communities present⟳ to one another and of strengthening the visceral experience⟳ of community.”

CEFR level

C1
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This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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