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underrate

[uhn-der-rayt] / ˌʌn dərˈreɪt /




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“It made me realize that we often ignore and underrate highly populated places for ichthyological exploratory studies. We now understand not to leave any stones unturned.”

From Scientific American ● Mar. 25, 2022

So you can’t underrate how massive this win was.

From Fox News ● Oct. 10, 2021

I think we all underrate Chris Carson’s value to the Seahawks offense.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 14, 2020

Open at nearby Olympic, an alleged nadir people often reference because people underrate the value of parking lots.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 4, 2020

"What are you doing? If he's going to help you, he has to know what you're capable of. Don't underrate yourself," says Peeta.

From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins

In general, I think this conversation underrates macroeconomic factors that could drive up the unemployment rate.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026

Whenever anybody asks me about Balanchine, I think of what Jack Nicholson said about Stanley Kubrick: “Everyone pretty much acknowledges him as The Man, and I still think that underrates him.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2024

The description perhaps underrates her novel, but is a fitting epigraph for this play and its decorously debauched protagonist.

From New York Times ● Jun. 6, 2023

Peterson finished with 16 yards on 11 carries, a line that obviously doesn’t stand out, but that somewhat underrates his contribution.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 5, 2021

Hence the deception to the eye, which sees details which it is accustomed to see on a smaller scale, and underrates their actual size, which is only to be ascertained by deliberate investigation.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 633, February 18, 1888 by Various

There’s a difference between a film that becomes a cult classic because it’s genuinely underrated, and one that achieves that status through the unholy, rose-colored lens of social media obsession.

From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2026

“Lioness” and “MobLand” are violent fun, “Colin From Accounts” is terrific, ”Diarra From Detroit” is an underrated gem and the sports lineup is solid.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026

Even better is Mr. Banderas in a quietly riveting performance, a career highlight for one of our most underrated actors.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

Despite this, over the past decade, he has quietly become one of the conservative legal movement’s most influential operators, making Paoletta an underrated political power in his own right.

From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2026

“I think pain is the most underrated emotion available to us,” the Count said.

From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman

I’m not saying criminally underrating someone like Yamamoto should be prosecutable, I’m just wondering why anyone would?

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 15, 2026

“I think the industry is underrating and underinvesting given the scale,” Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman told me the other day during our appearance at a Paley Center for Media event in Menlo Park, Calif.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2025

It is possible that we are now underrating the Sooners, who have won four games by one score?

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 6, 2021

People were underrating the amazing power of umbrage.

From Slate ● Mar. 28, 2013

Harriet was given to underrating everybody who had any sort of reputation, and she certainly underrated Norwich society, p. 89which, when I was a lad, was superior to most of our county towns. 

From Christopher Crayon's Recollections The Life and Times of the late James Ewing Ritchie as told by himself by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie




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