overestimate

Example Sentences

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As Amara’s Law says, we overestimate a technology’s short-term impact and underestimate its long-term effects.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 19, 2026

Armour's letter said that education was facing a gap of £250m, and he could not "overestimate the financial challenge we face in seeking to address our funding gap".

From BBC • Jan. 13, 2026

“Sometimes there’s an overestimate of voters’ desire to tax other people,” said the Tax Foundation’s Walczak.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 10, 2026

Ellenbogen: I don’t think you can overestimate the importance of the marginal cost of intelligence heading to zero, and the opportunity, agility, and efficiency it will create in service and knowledge work.

From Barron's • Jan. 9, 2026

But the curse of knowledge ensures that most writers will overestimate how standard a term has become and how wide the community is that has learned it.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker