overemphasis

Example Sentences

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An overemphasis on winning risks rewarding the vigilant while exhausting everyone.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 8, 2026

That dirty fuel, the overemphasis on external markers of achievement, will get you a short term win.

From Salon • Aug. 26, 2023

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

“Our sport has a constant overemphasis of results over experience,” McCoy said.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 18, 2022

Society is, on the whole, protected against the danger of overemphasis on the aesthetic interest, through the habitual subordination of it in public opinion to standards of efficiency.

From The Moral Economy by Perry, Ralph Barton