underestimate

Example Sentences

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“Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century women’s medical knowledge,” Ms. Skuse writes, “was long underestimated by historians” and dismissed by men of their own time.

From The Wall Street Journal

Some housing experts believe the scale of the problem has been underestimated.

From BBC

In this scene Ted lays out the series’ entire philosophical bent in a flawless monologue where Ted talks about being underestimated his entire life, and how much that used to bother him.

From Salon

There was also a widely-held belief that migrants calling from small boats exaggerated the distress, meaning the Coastguard underestimated the emergency.

From BBC

We underestimated the degree to which sentiment for software would worsen as investors reckon with the idea that AI powerhouses Anthropic, OpenAI, and Alphabet could eventually use their AI programs to sell services to businesses.

From Barron's