underrate
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“I think a lot of people underrate my speed, my explosiveness,’’ he said.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 1, 2024
Colin Farrell is wonderful in “Banshees,” but voters may underrate him when he’s playing a character who looks and talks like, well, Colin Farrell.
From New York Times ● Mar. 9, 2023
“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
"What are you doing? If he's going to help you, he has to know what you're capable of. Don't underrate yourself," says Peeta.
From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins
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But for everyday driving, Mr. Miller underrates the rate of improvement in AI, and the extent to which the problems he identifies are amenable to machine learning.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 7, 2025
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
But it never underrates the obligation to try.
From New York Times ● Dec. 26, 2018
No ambition should be entertained that does not embrace these fundamental duties and no career should be considered worthy that even underrates their sanctity.
From A Broader Mission for Liberal Education Baccalaureate Address, Delivered in Agricultural College Chapel, Sunday June 9, 1901 by John H. (John Henry) Worst
This city may be the South’s most underrated getaway.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026
Despite this, over the past decade, he has quietly become one of the conservative legal movement’s most influential operators, making Paoletta an underrated political power in his own right.
From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2026
For Italian travel expert and writer Alessia Armenise, supermarkets are an underrated gem.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
MarketWatch Picks: The 2 most underrated retirement moves, according to Edelman’s chief financial planner.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 25, 2026
But if the quiet parts are filler, maybe filler’s underrated.
From "What If It's Us" by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera
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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
People were underrating the amazing power of umbrage.
From Slate ● Mar. 28, 2013
Harriet was given to underrating everybody who had any sort of reputation, and she certainly underrated Norwich society, p. 89which, when I was a lad, was superior to most of our county towns.
From Christopher Crayon's Recollections The Life and Times of the late James Ewing Ritchie as told by himself by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie