overestimate
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However, don’t overestimate the value of these credentials, according to job-market experts.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026
It’s hard for investors to learn from their mistakes because they tend to underweight the importance of luck, overestimate the role of skill and “overinterpret what may be chance events,” says Alex Edmans.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
"If you are contacting a sample with a gloved hand, you're likely imparting these stearates that could overestimate your results."
From Science Daily ● Mar. 29, 2026
Armour's letter said that education was facing a gap of £250m, and he could not "overestimate the financial challenge we face in seeking to address our funding gap".
From BBC ● Jan. 13, 2026
The curse of knowledge means that we’re more likely to overestimate the average reader’s familiarity with our little world than to underestimate it.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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NBCUniversal executive Mark Marshall publicly criticized Nielsen, saying it overestimates streaming viewership at the expense of traditional media companies’ valuations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 14, 2026
Unfortunately, the price action overestimates near-term profit possibility, Reese explained while cutting the stock to Underperform from Neutral.
From Barron's ● Mar. 6, 2026
It's tremendous knockabout stuff, but it rather overestimates the scale of the challenge Scotland have faced when playing against England in the Townsend era.
From BBC ● Feb. 13, 2026
When your congregation zealously overestimates the epistemological functionality of empiricism in the work of logical positivism, you trap the conversation of science and consciousness in your lethally boring Vienna wagon-Circling.
From Salon ● Apr. 1, 2024
He overestimates the weight of this department of life, a mistake common to most men and some women.
From The Forerunner, Volume 1 (1909-1910) by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The EU said AliExpress' "overestimated the effectiveness of its system in detecting and removing illegal products".
From Barron's ● Jul. 20, 2026
High-rise buildings like those in Ancoats, which suffered huge deprivation after the war, are clear evidence of Manchester's redevelopment but Swinney says its economic "growth miracle" has been overestimated by official statistics.
From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026
If the stock falls or trades flat, there will likely be critiques that SpaceX and its advisers overestimated demand.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
It’s yet another indication that the allure of AI-created content for paying customers has been vastly overestimated.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2026
They had overestimated the speed with which they could defeat the Soviet army and underestimated the will to resist not only of the Soviet troops but also of the Soviet people.
From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson
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That is one reason investors may be overestimating how hawkish Warsh will be on rates.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 29, 2026
Investors may be overestimating the threat posed by BYD’s newly unveiled Xuanji A3 autonomous-driving chip, they note.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 1, 2026
"We may be overestimating microplastics, but there should be none," said McNeil, senior author of the study and U-M professor of chemistry, macromolecular science and engineering, and the Program in the Environment.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 29, 2026
At the time, he estimated that federal employment data could be overestimating the number of jobs created by as much as 60,000 positions each month.
From Barron's ● Feb. 2, 2026
It was flattering, but Shady was highly overestimating my circle of friends.
From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool
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