overemphasize
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It’s hard to overemphasize the chaos an abrupt revocation of identity documents can inflict on a person’s life.
From Slate ● Feb. 27, 2026
“There has been a propensity to overemphasize short term, technical headlines and overlook the broader direction of travel within our industry,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2025
The researchers are taking care not to overemphasize the results of their findings, saying the changes, while significant, remain slight.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 20, 2024
Those few, however, have an opportunity to raise their stock through recency bias, a behavioral economics phenomenon defined as a tendency to overemphasize the importance of recent experiences when predicting future events.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2023
However, origin stories may leave out key aspects of what actually happened and overemphasize others.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
"I think our field overemphasizes testing with metabolic rate. People are actually very insensitive to changes in their own metabolic rate, so we're developing exoskeletons to do something that people can't actually perceive."
From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2023
It overemphasizes formality and presentation, attributes that favor fine dining.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 16, 2019
It’s funny because of the large, exaggerated emotions spreading across his baby face, the way he overemphasizes the singer Kiely Williams’s lisp as he lip-syncs the word “promises.”
From New York Times ● Oct. 31, 2016
Papachristos—who is not involved with the Strategic Subject List himself—cautions that the program overemphasizes both an individual's potential to offend and the use of policing, rather than other services, to fight crime.
From Science Magazine ● Sep. 28, 2016
Of course one expects a desert to be hot and dry—that's why it is a desert—but the West Australian desert rather overemphasizes the necessities of the case.
From Herbert Hoover The Man and His Work by Vernon L. (Vernon Lyman) Kellogg
A risk of a potential cyclical slowdown is overemphasized in markets for the Japanese maker of chip-testing equipment, Ito says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 4, 2026
“I overemphasized being the best teammate I could be,” Jefferies said.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 13, 2024
Walgreens: A top Walgreens executive conceded that pharmacy chain brass may have overemphasized the threat of organized retail theft in San Francisco, The San Francisco Chronicle reports.
From New York Times ● Jan. 6, 2023
It cannot be overemphasized: an ASI would be an extremely powerful technology.
From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2022
The power of personal influence, of inspiring private letters, can hardly be overemphasized in studying the remarkable progress of asceticism.
From A Short History of Monks and Monasteries by Alfred Wesley Wishart
Skeptics have cautioned that AI models are prone to mistakes and overemphasizing the technology could restrict the types of studies researchers pursue.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
But overemphasizing the benefits of tree planting for carbon capture "can disincentive the protection of intact ecosystems and can lead to negative trade-offs between carbon, biodiversity, and ecosystem function," the authors write.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 3, 2023
The issue is overemphasizing them as primary solutions.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 17, 2022
For example, though it may sound enticing, research has shown that overemphasizing “positive thinking” can exacerbate general unhappiness and mental illness.
From Washington Post ● May 5, 2022
She brings her toes and heels together in a single dramatic click, overemphasizing a military way of standing straight.
From "Better Nate Than Ever" by Tim Federle
