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overestimate

[oh-ver-es-tuh-meyt, oh-ver-es-tuh-mit] / ˌoʊ vərˈɛs təˌmeɪt, ˈoʊ vərˈɛs tə mɪt /














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For now, the most human thing about humanoid robots may be our tendency to overestimate them.

From The Wall Street Journal

Never overestimate Europe’s ability to fix its own problems.

From The Wall Street Journal

The real risk is timing: overestimating job losses, underestimating the long, quiet rewiring already under way, and overlooking the jobs created in the backbone.

From The Wall Street Journal

I am always overestimating in my own mind the degree to which people have already picked up on a lot of the stuff that we talk about on this show.

From New York Times

Some tours, like the Black Keys’, may simply be a matter of the band overestimating demand.

From New York Times