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

Thomas Dee, a Stanford University education professor and economist, warns that an overemphasis on telling parents to send their children to school with a cold could backfire.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 21, 2025

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

From Salon • Aug. 26, 2023

Yet according to a growing body of research, an overemphasis on passion for one’s work can be detrimental in a number of ways.

From New York Times • Aug. 3, 2023

An overemphasis on the hereditary factor in development at the expense of the environmental factor, I call a heredity bugaboo; and it is a tendency which cannot be too strongly condemned.

From Civics and Health by Allen, William H.