underestimate
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This is likely to be an underestimate with many victims not choosing to report.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026
Wesley Ace has no complaints when people underestimate his football ability.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
Energy Information Administration and the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, has a tendency to underestimate crude demand.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 16, 2026
Artem Abramov, deputy head of analysis at Rystad Energy, suspects that the Alpines underestimate how AI could accelerate the improvement of low-carbon technologies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
Ben shared Charlie and Jamie’s view that people, and markets, tended to underestimate the probability of extreme change, but he took his thinking a step further.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
Although this condition is linked to a wide variety of negative health effects, the public chronically underestimates its seriousness.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 23, 2026
Humanitarian workers on the ground have said they believe the official figures are underestimates.
From Barron's ● Jul. 14, 2026
Yass said fellow billionaire Jeff Bezos, if anything, underestimates his contribution to the U.S. economy.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 23, 2026
That there are really only two options for communication vastly underestimates dogs’ communicative potential.
From Slate ● Jun. 20, 2026
“I underestimate him? Are you serious? He underestimates me.”
From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson
But for whatever reason, that becomes the data point for why I underestimated the magnitude of the miss, which then becomes the data point for my firing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
I think punk was underestimated because, look, it’s 50 years later and we’re still here.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
It also found that there was a widely held belief that migrants calling from small boats exaggerated the distress, meaning the coastguard underestimated the emergency.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
Canadians have never felt quite safe with America, while Americans have consistently misunderstood and underestimated the enormous land to the north.
From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2026
“I must apologize. I think we have all underestimated a member of our class.”
From "Out of My Mind" by Sharon M. Draper
Markets are underestimating the impact on utilities’ companies EPS by around 6%-9%, the analysts say.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
We’re underestimating the often-invisible work of people who enable higher-ranking leaders to delegate and get the most out of front-line employees.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
This is why Muir says that “the market is vastly underestimating the dangers lurking under the covers.”
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 4, 2026
"That is why we are committed to progressing in a collaborative way, whilst not underestimating the considerable challenges ahead, and providing stability for all at the earliest opportunity."
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
“Of course. Pyce took us once unawares, but we won’t make the mistake of underestimating him again.”
From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi
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