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overemphasis

[oh-ver-em-fuh-sis] / ˌoʊ vərˈɛm fə sɪs /




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There were incorrect mathematical analyses, reliance on four poor-quality trials and the overemphasis of the study in children.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 27, 2026

I ended up a contract worker at a tech giant, making less than the staffing agency that placed me—but I learned plenty about the industry’s overemphasis on tech and underemphasis on substance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026

Thomas Dee, a Stanford University education professor and economist, warns that an overemphasis on telling parents to send their children to school with a cold could backfire.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2025

“I think that actually goes part and parcel with some of the overemphasis on these big highway widening projects.”

From Seattle Times ● May 31, 2024

The overemphasis upon preaching, the general passion of this generation for talk and then more talk, and then endless talk, is perfectly intelligible in view of the regulative ideas of this generation.

From Preaching and Paganism by Albert Parker Fitch


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