overemphasis

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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

Listing these catch-up details reveals the introductory episodes’ overemphasis on the situation instead of leaning into the comedy of it all.

From Salon • Oct. 16, 2024

But she believes that an overemphasis on identity groups and a tendency to reduce people to “victim or villain” can strip agency from and alienate everyone — including employees of color.

From New York Times • May 13, 2023

You will find the result is that overemphasis which has brought such discredit upon the name of "elocution."

From Vocal Expression A Class-book of Voice Training and Interpretation by Everts, Katherine Jewell