underestimate
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This is likely to be an underestimate with many victims not choosing to report.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026
It’s perfectly reasonable for Claude to underestimate its own abilities and assume it can’t do certain things—because until recently, it couldn’t.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
MarketWatch spoke to a variety of experts, from contractors to economists, to identify some of the most common hidden costs of owning a home that new homeowners can miss or underestimate.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026
Infiniti: Something that I realized when I was probably about 13 or 14 is, I used to be very upset when people would underestimate me.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
“I’m not; I won’t. All I’m saying is, don’t underestimate them.”
From "A High Five for Glenn Burke" by Phil Bildner
Although this condition is linked to a wide variety of negative health effects, the public chronically underestimates its seriousness.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 23, 2026
“Perhaps Claude, like many of us, underestimates the rate of AI progress,” Anthropic researchers wrote.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
Humanitarian workers on the ground have said they believe the official figures are underestimates.
From Barron's ● Jul. 14, 2026
That there are really only two options for communication vastly underestimates dogs’ communicative potential.
From Slate ● Jun. 20, 2026
“I underestimate him? Are you serious? He underestimates me.”
From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson
Canadians have never felt quite safe with America, while Americans have consistently misunderstood and underestimated the enormous land to the north.
From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2026
Fong admitted she had "underestimated" the risk Cookie posed.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
Papatiti fears that the death toll is being underestimated and that the affliction may also be affecting elephants in neighbouring Tanzania.
From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026
But from being underestimated, I remember my dad being like, “You have to get comfortable with ‘no.’
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
By then I could already tell that people often underestimated her.
From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson
Musk pushed back against sceptics on an earnings call: "I think people are really underestimating Starlink".
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
Imagine “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” with automatic weapons, or “The Honeymooners” with an actual moon shot, and you’ll still be underestimating the domestic rancor of the horror-comedy “Over Your Dead Body.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
Micron wasn’t alone in underestimating the level of demand for AI-linked products.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 3, 2026
Harrison admitted to underestimating the backlash from fans but defended the trade, initially saying he had “no regrets.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2026
Funny, he knew Leon was in a precarious position and yet there was always the danger of underestimating him.
From "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier
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