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underrate

[uhn-der-rayt] / ˌʌn dərˈreɪt /




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“It made me realize that we often ignore and underrate highly populated places for ichthyological exploratory studies. We now understand not to leave any stones unturned.”

From Scientific American ● Mar. 25, 2022

When it comes to Lloyd Webber’s musical audacity, it can sometimes feel as if it’s not just rock snobs that underrate “Superstar,” but also self-professed musical theater lovers.

From New York Times ● Oct. 12, 2021

So you can’t underrate how massive this win was.

From Fox News ● Oct. 10, 2021

I think we all underrate Chris Carson’s value to the Seahawks offense.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 14, 2020

He accompanied them as far as the end of the wood with all the cheerfulness he could muster; only begging Hazel, out of hearing of the rest, not to underrate the danger.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

This prevailing narrative underrates Ms. Sears and her political chemistry.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2025

Whenever anybody asks me about Balanchine, I think of what Jack Nicholson said about Stanley Kubrick: “Everyone pretty much acknowledges him as The Man, and I still think that underrates him.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2024

Peterson finished with 16 yards on 11 carries, a line that obviously doesn’t stand out, but that somewhat underrates his contribution.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 5, 2021

But it never underrates the obligation to try.

From New York Times ● Dec. 26, 2018

We ought not to reverence the blind recklessness which sits on the safety-valve during a steamboat-race, but the cool composure which neither underrates a danger nor shrinks from it.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 13, November, 1858 by Various

The Jaguars’ defense is underrated but gave away a lead against the Broncos.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

The rub here is that there’s a difference between a film that becomes a cult classic because it’s genuinely underrated, and one that achieves that status through the unholy, rose-colored lens of social media obsession.

From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2026

This city may be the South’s most underrated getaway.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026

“Being consistently, predictably reliable is one of the most underrated forms of workplace influence,” she says.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026

His heroes, notwithstanding the underrated John Field, were Mozart and Bach, composers in whose music dignity was everything.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

I’m not saying criminally underrating someone like Yamamoto should be prosecutable, I’m just wondering why anyone would?

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 15, 2026

“I think the industry is underrating and underinvesting given the scale,” Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman told me the other day during our appearance at a Paley Center for Media event in Menlo Park, Calif.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2025

It is possible that we are now underrating the Sooners, who have won four games by one score?

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 6, 2021

Or am I overrating my own importance as a parent and underrating the resilience kids can have?

From Slate ● Feb. 9, 2020

Neither he nor the Americans could have any object in underrating or overrating him.

From Discussion on American Slavery by Rev. Robert J. Breckinridge


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