overemphasize
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“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
“I think the authors overemphasize the evolutionary significance of their work,” says Robert Blankenship, an emeritus biochemist at Washington University in St. Louis.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 18, 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
“With the threats around, it just overemphasizes the need for these events worldwide.”
From Washington Post ● Jun. 11, 2022
It overemphasizes formality and presentation, attributes that favor fine dining.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 16, 2019
Ms. Sherald’s image of Mrs. Obama overemphasizes an element of couturial spectacle, but also projects a rock-solid cool.
From New York Times ● Feb. 12, 2018
But he lacks neither intelligence nor elegance, and if he sometimes goes too fast he never overemphasizes slowness.
From Musical Memories by Rich, Edwin Gile
Claude’s advice, while similar, overemphasized data from my smartwatch, Ranji said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 4, 2026
There’s always something that got missed that you thought was important or something else that got overemphasized that you didn’t think was very important.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 18, 2024
Morales has sidestepped addressing questions about those issues and whether he has overemphasized his military service during his campaign.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 3, 2022
It cannot be overemphasized: an ASI would be an extremely powerful technology.
From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2022
Lombroso and some of his school have altogether overemphasized the physical and anatomical side of the study of the criminal, and slighted the sociological side of such study.
From Sociology and Modern Social Problems by Ellwood, Charles A. (Charles Abram)
Certain established giants—Stephen Crane and Theodore Dreiser among them—earn Fiedler’s disparagement, usually for overemphasizing realism.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 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
He felt protective early on, when the media was overemphasizing where he is from with headlines like “... from South Central to stardom.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 22, 2023
She likes to lean into the drama of her songs, elongating words by overemphasizing certain syllables — a playful antithesis to the articulation-isn’t-important attitude that prevails across so much of today’s pop music.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 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
