overestimate
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Traditional physics models have consistently overestimated how tall a foam must be before liquid begins to leak out.
From Science Daily
Five years ago, state forecasters badly missed their runoff predictions — overestimating the snowmelt expected to refill reservoirs by up to 68%.
From Los Angeles Times
Because of that assumption, they underestimated the mass of the black hole and overestimated the mass of the neutron star.
From Science Daily
His prediction for “Zootopia 2” was close to the roughly $1.9 billion the movie actually made globally, but he overestimated “Wicked: For Good,” he said.
In some places, the models overestimated carbon emissions.
From Science Daily
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