Overestimate
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After a prolonged period of accelerating demand growth, notably from China, governments came to regard high commodity prices as semi-permanent – an assumption that caused them to
overestimate
their future revenues.
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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