underrate
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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
He accompanied them as far as the end of the wood with all the cheerfulness he could muster; only begging Hazel, out of hearing of the rest, not to underrate the danger.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
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
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
"He's pretty tough. I don't think anyone underrates his toughness."
From US News ● Oct. 12, 2015
This estimate holds him too lightly and underrates the peril to which the United States was then exposed.
From Washington and his colleagues; a chronicle of the rise and fall of federalism by Henry Jones Ford
What “Is This It” and its underrated follow-up, “Room on Fire,” mean to original fans will differ from what they mean to listeners who meet the Strokes through more recent albums.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
This is a severely underrated album because the songs that aren’t mentioned are just as good.
From Salon ● Aug. 25, 2026
It’s an underrated, retro way to discover songs you’ve never heard, songs by artists you love, and songs by artists you forgot you love.
From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2026
“Being consistently, predictably reliable is one of the most underrated forms of workplace influence,” she says.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026
His heroes, notwithstanding the underrated John Field, were Mozart and Bach, composers in whose music dignity was everything.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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
In public comments this week, Fed officials have suggested that markets are underrating the possibility of a September rate increase.
From New York Times ● Aug. 17, 2016
No one, I hope, will accuse me, after I have said all this, of underrating the reasons in favor of subjectivism.
From The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James
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