overestimate
Example Sentences
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For now, the most human thing about humanoid robots may be our tendency to overestimate them.
Never overestimate Europe’s ability to fix its own problems.
The real risk is timing: overestimating job losses, underestimating the long, quiet rewiring already under way, and overlooking the jobs created in the backbone.
In the area where Plaskett farms, the state severely overestimated decades ago just how much water was available from wells sunk deep into fractured rock and gravel.
From Washington Times
District Judge Lewis Kaplan said both sides overestimated the potential benefits, and that he could "achieve appropriate conservation of judicial resources and avoidance of inconsistent rulings" in separate trials.
From Reuters
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
