overemphasize
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It’s hard to overemphasize the chaos an abrupt revocation of identity documents can inflict on a person’s life.
From Slate ● Feb. 27, 2026
“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
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
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
News’s rankings because the scoring overemphasizes resources afforded to a department, alumni giving and graduation rates.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 16, 2015
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
Claude’s advice, while similar, overemphasized data from my smartwatch, Ranji said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 4, 2026
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
They are highlighting that he twice left low-level secretary of state office jobs after being written up for poor job performance and questions over whether he’s overemphasized his military service.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 18, 2022
It cannot be overemphasized: an ASI would be an extremely powerful technology.
From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2022
She was almost pitifully overemphasized from head to foot.
From The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald
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
Twenge has also been accused of overemphasizing the effects of technology at the expense, for example, of economic explanations.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 20, 2023
Some parents hold there’s a balance between overemphasizing wellness and simply cultivating better habits.
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
