overemphasis
Example Sentences
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An overemphasis on winning risks rewarding the vigilant while exhausting everyone.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 8, 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
Listing these catch-up details reveals the introductory episodes’ overemphasis on the situation instead of leaning into the comedy of it all.
From Salon ● Oct. 16, 2024
“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
"In overemphasis of issues and overstatement of aims."
From The International Jew The World's Foremost Problem by Henry Ford
