overestimate
Example Sentences
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For now, the most human thing about humanoid robots may be our tendency to overestimate them.
Never overestimate Europe’s ability to fix its own problems.
The real risk is timing: overestimating job losses, underestimating the long, quiet rewiring already under way, and overlooking the jobs created in the backbone.
But in real life, even before the firing starts, the gun takes on a life of its own, and we regularly overestimate our ability to control it.
From Seattle Times
The plaintiffs said this led the EPA to overestimate fuel economy by as much as 15%, inducing them to overpay for their trucks and resulting in extra fuel costs.
From Reuters
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