Overestimate
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If you win the lottery – and if the big prize that you receive is there to induce others to
overestimate
their chances and purchase lottery tickets and so enrich the lottery operator – do you “deserve” your winnings?
More example sentences with word overestimate
We can't
overestimate
the amount of despair that we are generating with places like this.
It's our tendency to
overestimate
our likelihood of experiencing good events in our lives and underestimate our likelihood of experiencing bad events.
We
overestimate
our longevity, our career prospects.
So the United Nations did just that, and they recently issued a report on this whole area, and what they concluded was the power of this technology for positive was much greater than the risk for negative, and they even looked specifically at the DIYbio community, and they noted, not surprisingly, that the press had a tendency to consistently
overestimate
our capabilities and underestimate our ethics.
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