overestimate
Example Sentences
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"If you are contacting a sample with a gloved hand, you're likely imparting these stearates that could overestimate your results."
From Science Daily • Mar. 29, 2026
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
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
“People tend to overestimate my character,” I say quietly.
From "Divergent" by Veronica Roth
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
