overemphasis
Example Sentences
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He thinks big companies will soon realize that their overemphasis on AI-produced code is driving up costs and leading to subpar software.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
Thomas Dee, a Stanford University education professor and economist, warns that an overemphasis on telling parents to send their children to school with a cold could backfire.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2025
“I think that actually goes part and parcel with some of the overemphasis on these big highway widening projects.”
From Seattle Times ● May 31, 2024
"Dirty fuel, the overemphasis on external markers of achievement," she says, "over time is going to clog up your kid's engine."
From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2023
His fantastic and strained application of religious truth, his overemphasis of many things, and especially his conduct in zealously aiding and abetting the Salem witchcraft murders, were no mean factors in causing that decline.
From History of American Literature by Reuben Post Halleck
