overvalue
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Behavioral-finance experts say this stems from the “endowment effect”: a psychological bias where we overvalue what we already own and confuse familiarity with financial security.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 23, 2026
Casual bettors are taking bigger risks than they realize, in part because of a phenomenon called “long shot bias,” in which bettors, driven by excitement, overvalue unlikely events.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 4, 2026
"We sometimes overvalue the role of proprietary software in our organisations," Mr Maisto says, pointing out that for key services like word processing and email, open-source solutions work just fine.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2025
People tend to overvalue the tax break now versus the long-term consequences of a smaller benefit later, she says.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 1, 2024
Zach is up and down, and true to his nature, he has a tendency to overvalue his achievements.
From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove
I treat many adults who have severe eating disorders partly as a result of growing up in a society that overvalues thinness, promotes dieting for weight loss, and shames people who are overweight or obese.
From Salon ● Feb. 5, 2024
Data shows the draft value chart developed by Johnson in the early 1990s — which assigns each pick numerical value and is still used leaguewide — overvalues the top 50 picks and undervalues the rest.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 20, 2020
Pierce County Executive Bruce Dammeier, who supports tax relief, guessed that public frustration about overvalues, by itself, caused a 5% to 10% boost for Eyman’s measure.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 21, 2019
One person overvalues himself while, at the same time, devaluing the contributions of others.
From Inc ● Apr. 10, 2013
The teacher who persists in talking most of the time overvalues his own thoughts and minimizes the ideas of others.
From Principles of Teaching by Adam S. Bennion
The bad news: It’s just as historically overvalued.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
These statistics suggest that the small- and midcap sectors of the stock market are significantly more overvalued than the large-cap sector.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 30, 2026
The global race to build data centres hosting AI infrastructure has seen a meteoric rise in the firm's fortunes, despite concern the sector may be overvalued in a market bubble.
From Barron's ● Jul. 28, 2026
SpaceX’s valuation has been a major point of contention among analysts, some of whom argue that the company was overvalued even before the stock surged soon after its public debut.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026
The Securities and Exchange Commission later said that those figures were “false and misleading,” in part because the sale price for the headquarters had been overvalued by as much as $40 million.
From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger
Discovery is overvaluing the global networks business, which is not included in the deal with Netflix, and believes the business may be worth nothing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 20, 2026
"We are overvaluing properties massively just to gain instructions," said the agent to the whistleblower in a private message.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2025
He and his firm lied to their 120 investors about where their money was going while dramatically overvaluing holdings to justify extortionist management fees.
From Slate ● Nov. 29, 2023
Elsewhere in the segment, co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin poked fun at Trump overvaluing his Mar-a-Lago resort and lying about the size of his three-story Trump Tower penthouse:
From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2023
He might perhaps be regarded as overvaluing it with more apparent reason—not, I think, with any reason that is more than apparent.
From The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) by George Saintsbury
