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

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

"Dirty fuel, the overemphasis on external markers of achievement," she says, "over time is going to clog up your kid's engine."

From Salon • Aug. 26, 2023

Still, a subset of F1 devotees complain about what they see as an overemphasis on entertainment and ginned-up drama.

From New York Times • May 13, 2023

It is a manner full of exaggeration and overemphasis, but with some remarkable rhetorical qualities and a good deal of colour. 

From Reviews by Wilde, Oscar