underrate
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“I think a lot of people underrate my speed, my explosiveness,’’ he said.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 1, 2024
“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
“I mean, I think people underrate how special he is and how fast he is,” Ravens tight end Nick Boyle said.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 4, 2019
"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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This prevailing narrative underrates Ms. Sears and her political chemistry.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 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
The description perhaps underrates her novel, but is a fitting epigraph for this play and its decorously debauched protagonist.
From New York Times ● Jun. 6, 2023
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
Perchance man over-estimates his own importance—at least underrates that of the animal kingdom below him—and is too apt to deem everything in nature wasted that cannot be directly or indirectly connected with himself!
From The Rover of the Andes A Tale of Adventure on South America by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
This is a severely underrated album because the songs that aren’t mentioned are just as good.
From Salon ● Aug. 25, 2026
It’s an underrated, retro way to discover songs you’ve never heard, songs by artists you love, and songs by artists you forgot you love.
From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2026
But the teenage sensation still spearheads their team alongside the underrated Oyarzabal, who boasts a one-in-two scoring record for his country and has found the net five times at this World Cup.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
MarketWatch Picks: The 2 most underrated retirement moves, according to Edelman’s chief financial planner.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 25, 2026
His heroes, notwithstanding the underrated John Field, were Mozart and Bach, composers in whose music dignity was everything.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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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
In public comments this week, Fed officials have suggested that markets are underrating the possibility of a September rate increase.
From New York Times ● Aug. 17, 2016
Of course, you won't suspect me of underrating the moral and religious considerations?'
From The Grandchildren of the Ghetto by Israel Zangwill