overestimate

Example Sentences

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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

Dumb, dopey Greg tends to benefit most from this, in that he overestimates his value while others doubt or dismiss his capabilities.

From Salon

Lack of intellectual humility will lead to intellectual overconfidence and cause us to overestimate what we know, and also refuse to admit it when we're wrong or we should change your mind about something.

From Salon