overemphasis
Example Sentences
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I ended up a contract worker at a tech giant, making less than the staffing agency that placed me—but I learned plenty about the industry’s overemphasis on tech and underemphasis on substance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 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
The study, published last week in Nature Sustainability, found that an overemphasis on recycling has distracted us from better options for preventing waste.
From Salon ● Aug. 7, 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 William H. Allen
