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

Ultimately, it’s the epiphanies and insights that make it possible to enjoy, without too much guilt, the flat-out entertainment of “Some Like It Hot,” including its groaners, overemphasis and old-school gags.

From New York Times • Dec. 11, 2022

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 Fitch, Albert Parker