overrate
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“I think people overrate the benefits of decentralization, or how religiously someone has to adhere to it,” said Cosmo Jiang, general partner at crypto venture firm Pantera Capital.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026
"Be careful not to overrate the Russia-China relationship," says Mr Østhagen.
From BBC ● May 23, 2025
Still, it's important not to overrate what Carlson's leaving means for Fox News.
From Salon ● Apr. 25, 2023
“It is hard to overrate the importance of the information received through Blake,” Sergei Ivanov, an official for the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, told Russian media in 2007.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 26, 2020
It is a common error to overrate the accomplishment of potent and ambitious men in tumultuous times.
From The Brothers' War by John Calvin Reed
He also says his ideas are more relevant today than ever — especially as Americans develop an anti-science culture that, among other things, drastically overrates the significance of IQ tests.
From Salon ● Dec. 28, 2024
Georgetown, which has played the nation's toughest schedule according to the RPI, is ranked 12th despite a 21-10 record, which probably overrates them by 10-20 spots.
From Slate ● Mar. 11, 2011
Sometimes it seems that Steiner overrates the importance of language; but to him the word is the very essence of humanity.
From Time Magazine Archive
She is," replied the blind man; "but I think my son overrates her zeal on my account.
From The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 2 of 6 by Eugène Sue
Think of all the adjectives that make for admiration, and you have scarce employed one that overrates the dignified and stately air of the High Street of Marlborough.
From The Bath Road History, Fashion, & Frivolity on an Old Highway by Charles G. (Charles George) Harper
Yet the steady post-Oscar blowback and general friction surrounding Fennell made me certain I’d overrated it.
From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026
Among the takeaways from columnist Callum Borchers’s conversations with women who make at least $775,000 a year: Thick skin is overrated and impostor syndrome isn’t always bad.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 6, 2026
I guess I’d like to be not quite as underrated — maybe even, dare I say, to be overrated.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2026
Liza Prideaux agrees understated decorations are overrated and has embraced "nostalgic, vintage" decor at Christmas for the last two years.
From BBC ● Dec. 20, 2025
If this invisible guy was Love, Jason was beginning to think Love was overrated.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
Lastly, Lee said that the Federal Reserve’s next meeting not being until September will also help support stocks, noting that markets are currently overrating the chances of an interest-rate hike happening next month.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 4, 2026
Or am I overrating my own importance as a parent and underrating the resilience kids can have?
From Slate ● Feb. 9, 2020
Be wary of overrating Ballage’s 123-yard rushing performance from Week 15.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 21, 2018
I think the ensuing disasters were two-pronged failures — overrating the talent on hand, and not making the right moves to improve the team.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 26, 2012
Ride out with me, King Ranald, for we must count these Danes, and see that we are not overrating their number.
From King Alfred's Viking A Story of the First English Fleet by Charles W. (Charles Watts) Whistler
