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overestimate

[oh-ver-es-tuh-meyt, oh-ver-es-tuh-mit] / ˌoʊ vərˈɛs təˌmeɪt, ˈoʊ vərˈɛs tə mɪt /














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Others say the study could have overestimated the performance of the test because not all women had a biopsy - a more detailed test - to double check the result.

From BBC

Unfortunately, investors overestimate their chances of picking those winners.

From The Wall Street Journal

At the time, he estimated that federal employment data could be overestimating the number of jobs created by as much as 60,000 positions each month.

From Barron's

That mutual awareness may provide some reassurance, but it could also create dangerous misperceptions, with each side potentially overestimating its leverage or misreading the opponent's intentions.

From BBC

One factor persuading Hartnett to run his long bond call for now is that he believes economists got inflation wrong last year, and he thinks they’ll overestimate it again this year.

From MarketWatch