overemphasize

“There has been a propensity to overemphasize short term, technical headlines and overlook the broader direction of travel within our industry,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2025

It is an intimate space, which meant that Armitage had to do without decor, and which may have led her to overemphasize theatrics.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2025

The researchers are taking care not to overemphasize the results of their findings, saying the changes, while significant, remain slight.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 20, 2024

“I think the authors overemphasize the evolutionary significance of their work,” says Robert Blankenship, an emeritus biochemist at Washington University in St. Louis.

From Science Magazine ● Apr. 18, 2023

However, origin stories may leave out key aspects of what actually happened and overemphasize others.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

"I think our field overemphasizes testing with metabolic rate. People are actually very insensitive to changes in their own metabolic rate, so we're developing exoskeletons to do something that people can't actually perceive."

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2023

It’s a mix of themes and tones, both concrete and ethereal, ghoulish and comedic, but the imbalanced direction here, by LaTanya Richardson Jackson, overemphasizes the horror too literally; it works best on a metaphorical level.

From New York Times ● Oct. 13, 2022

Critics complain that extreme event attribution, as the effort is known, overemphasizes public communications and underestimates uncertainty.

From Science Magazine ● Jun. 15, 2022

It overemphasizes formality and presentation, attributes that favor fine dining.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 16, 2019

But he lacks neither intelligence nor elegance, and if he sometimes goes too fast he never overemphasizes slowness.

From Musical Memories by Edwin Gile Rich

A risk of a potential cyclical slowdown is overemphasized in markets for the Japanese maker of chip-testing equipment, Ito says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 4, 2026

“I overemphasized being the best teammate I could be,” Jefferies said.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 13, 2024

Walgreens: A top Walgreens executive conceded that pharmacy chain brass may have overemphasized the threat of organized retail theft in San Francisco, The San Francisco Chronicle reports.

From New York Times ● Jan. 6, 2023

It cannot be overemphasized: an ASI would be an extremely powerful technology.

From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2022

In the strong glare everything about her was overemphasized, but O-liver knew that when she showed up on the screen she would be entrancing.

From The Gay Cockade by Temple Bailey

Certain established giants—Stephen Crane and Theodore Dreiser among them—earn Fiedler’s disparagement, usually for overemphasizing realism.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026

But overemphasizing the benefits of tree planting for carbon capture "can disincentive the protection of intact ecosystems and can lead to negative trade-offs between carbon, biodiversity, and ecosystem function," the authors write.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 3, 2023

She likes to lean into the drama of her songs, elongating words by overemphasizing certain syllables — a playful antithesis to the articulation-isn’t-important attitude that prevails across so much of today’s pop music.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 5, 2022

The issue is overemphasizing them as primary solutions.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 17, 2022

She brings her toes and heels together in a single dramatic click, overemphasizing a military way of standing straight.

From "Better Nate Than Ever" by Tim Federle