underestimate
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The measured concentrations may even underestimate magma's actual oxygen-storage capacity.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2026
“I think people underestimate the power of high tides,” Vukojevic said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026
The ability to go years without access to your money is a huge risk that even sophisticated / institutional investors underestimate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026
"Don't underestimate the weather - and stay away from riverbanks," he added.
From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026
To say that I had low expectations would be to underestimate the matter dramatically.
From "Looking for Alaska" by John Green
"Keeping scale-ups on the fringes underestimates the contribution of our greatest companies, and we need to support and develop them on British shores at all costs," she said.
From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026
"The total reported burned area therefore underestimates the true area burned," he said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026
Subsequent research has shown that these forces had a much greater impact than was historically acknowledged, suggesting that many early population figures were already substantial underestimates.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026
Yass said fellow billionaire Jeff Bezos, if anything, underestimates his contribution to the U.S. economy.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 23, 2026
Arguably, Mauer underestimates the scope of the challenge by focusing narrowly on the prison system, rather than counting all of the people employed in the criminal justice bureaucracy.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
As a result, the initial dietary assessments may have underestimated participants' actual consumption during the study period.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 21, 2026
We launched the first flower bouquet in 2021 and completely underestimated how successful it would be.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026
But we may have underestimated how far the world’s wealthiest man and his ilk would go to prevent audiences from seeing it.
From Salon ● Oct. 16, 2026
The findings suggest that Heisenberg significantly underestimated how much additional material his reactor would have required.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026
“I must apologize. I think we have all underestimated a member of our class.”
From "Out of My Mind" by Sharon M. Draper
Fashion giants on both sides of the Atlantic are underestimating the Chinese shopper at their own peril.
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
Mencken, the legendary journalist, said: “No one in this world…has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.”
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026
Markets are underestimating the impact on utilities’ companies EPS by around 6%-9%, the analysts say.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
This is why Muir says that “the market is vastly underestimating the dangers lurking under the covers.”
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 4, 2026
“Of course. Pyce took us once unawares, but we won’t make the mistake of underestimating him again.”
From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi
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