overemphasize

“There has been a propensity to overemphasize short term, technical headlines and overlook the broader direction of travel within our industry,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2025

The researchers are taking care not to overemphasize the results of their findings, saying the changes, while significant, remain slight.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 20, 2024

Those few, however, have an opportunity to raise their stock through recency bias, a behavioral economics phenomenon defined as a tendency to overemphasize the importance of recent experiences when predicting future events.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2023

“I think the authors overemphasize the evolutionary significance of their work,” says Robert Blankenship, an emeritus biochemist at Washington University in St. Louis.

From Science Magazine ● Apr. 18, 2023

However, origin stories may leave out key aspects of what actually happened and overemphasize others.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

"I think our field overemphasizes testing with metabolic rate. People are actually very insensitive to changes in their own metabolic rate, so we're developing exoskeletons to do something that people can't actually perceive."

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2023

It’s a mix of themes and tones, both concrete and ethereal, ghoulish and comedic, but the imbalanced direction here, by LaTanya Richardson Jackson, overemphasizes the horror too literally; it works best on a metaphorical level.

From New York Times ● Oct. 13, 2022

It overemphasizes formality and presentation, attributes that favor fine dining.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 16, 2019

Papachristos—who is not involved with the Strategic Subject List himself—cautions that the program overemphasizes both an individual's potential to offend and the use of policing, rather than other services, to fight crime.

From Science Magazine ● Sep. 28, 2016

Ancient nations emphasized the social-national aspect of life overmuch, as for example the Spartans; the modern home overemphasizes the family aspect.

From The Nervous Housewife by Abraham Myerson

A risk of a potential cyclical slowdown is overemphasized in markets for the Japanese maker of chip-testing equipment, Ito says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 4, 2026

She pointed to the presidential campaign of Harris, who could be the first woman and first person of Asian descent to serve as president, but who Lien said has strategically not overemphasized that fact.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2024

“I overemphasized being the best teammate I could be,” Jefferies said.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 13, 2024

It cannot be overemphasized: an ASI would be an extremely powerful technology.

From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2022

Although the body adjusts itself to widely varying conditions and even to unfavorable ones, the importance of forming desirable habits cannot be overemphasized.

From American Red Cross Text-Book on Home Hygiene and Care of the Sick by American Red Cross

Skeptics have cautioned that AI models are prone to mistakes and overemphasizing the technology could restrict the types of studies researchers pursue.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026

It’s easy to criticize the media for overemphasizing someone’s prison exposure, and easier still to excoriate prosecutors for sweetheart deals.

From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2023

But overemphasizing the benefits of tree planting for carbon capture "can disincentive the protection of intact ecosystems and can lead to negative trade-offs between carbon, biodiversity, and ecosystem function," the authors write.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 3, 2023

Twenge has also been accused of overemphasizing the effects of technology at the expense, for example, of economic explanations.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 20, 2023

She brings her toes and heels together in a single dramatic click, overemphasizing a military way of standing straight.

From "Better Nate Than Ever" by Tim Federle