overestimated

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It’s yet another indication that the allure of AI-created content for paying customers has been vastly overestimated.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2026

Traditional physics models have consistently overestimated how tall a foam must be before liquid begins to leak out.

From Science Daily • Mar. 23, 2026

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.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 10, 2026

Worse still, the department reported that the federal government had overestimated the number of jobs employers added in its two previous reports.

From Slate • Mar. 6, 2026

They overestimated its size by a factor of six and gave it frightening claws, which in fact came from a Megalonyx, or giant ground sloth, found nearby.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson