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
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
“Our sport has a constant overemphasis of results over experience,” McCoy said.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 18, 2022
We may admit that there is a good deal of overemphasis in this statement, but the doctrine itself does not seem strange or sensational to-day.
From Socialism A Summary and Interpretation of Socialist Principles by Spargo, John
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
