overestimate
Example Sentences
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It's tremendous knockabout stuff, but it rather overestimates the scale of the challenge Scotland have faced when playing against England in the Townsend era.
From BBC
Traditionally, host nations benefit from sports events, although impacts are often overestimated.
From Salon
Others say the study could have overestimated the performance of the test because not all women had a biopsy - a more detailed test - to double check the result.
From BBC
Unfortunately, investors overestimate their chances of picking those winners.
At the time, he estimated that federal employment data could be overestimating the number of jobs created by as much as 60,000 positions each month.
From Barron's
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