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

“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

That dirty fuel, the overemphasis on external markers of achievement, will get you a short term win.

From Salon • Aug. 26, 2023

But she believes that an overemphasis on identity groups and a tendency to reduce people to “victim or villain” can strip agency from and alienate everyone — including employees of color.

From New York Times • May 13, 2023

In all dealing with this problem of young people, we must beware of overemphasis or exaggeration.

From Sex-education A series of lectures concerning knowledge of sex in its relation to human life by Bigelow, Maurice Alpheus