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Overestimating in sentence

19 examples of Overestimating in a sentence

"Love consists of overestimating the differences between one woman and another."
That we're overestimating the technology in the short term.
And then my profit graph went from a thing of beauty to something kind of sad, with this worrying downhill trend for a long time, until I finally realized that I was overestimating my skill level, and got my act together.
The idea with bounded ethicality is that we are perhaps overestimating the importance our inner compass is playing in our ethical decisions.
We perhaps are overestimating how much our self-interest is driving our decisions, and perhaps we don't realize how much our self-view as a good person is affecting our behavior, that in fact, we're working so hard to protect that good person identity, to keep out of that red zone, that we're not actually giving ourselves space to learn from our mistakes and actually be better people.
Just last year, Roger Ebert sang the praises of the serial killer B-movie Kalifornia, citing it -- and vastly overestimating it -- as a brilliant character study with something intelligent to say about our culture of violence.
It would be overestimating this movie to pretend it's the breath of fresh air that horror needed.
Green GDP does include uncounted losses, so it avoids the problem of overestimating our wealth, but it fails to account for the potentially much larger benefits of innovation.
In particular, the global powers are underestimating Iran’s resilience, and Iran is overestimating the ability of the US, in an election year, to curb possible Israeli military adventurism.
Turkey is more dynamic and energetic than Russia, and its economy certainly is faring much better, but both regimes are overestimating the strength of their position and underestimating the cost of their autocratic turn.
And yet he may be overestimating China’s influence over North Korea.
As the world slowly moves from elation to sober realism, it is important to maintain a balanced view of what’s happening and avoid the dual risks of underestimating the truly revolutionary nature of what took place and overestimating the ability of Obama’s team to find miracle solutions.
But there is a more fundamental issue: the Chinese authorities, in arguing that it was a mistake to allow the yen to appreciate, may be misinterpreting what happened in Japan – and thus overestimating the risk posed by currency appreciation.
To be sure, there has been fresh media chatter about the reliability of Chinese data, owing to reports that some provinces have been overestimating their economic performance in recent years.
They have also misunderstood the bilateral trade deficits with China, overestimating their importance.
Unlike Russian President Vladimir Putin, Yanukovych seems to have steamrolled too many too fast, overestimating his power and narrowing his base.
Overestimating the EU EconomyABU DHABI – The European Commission, the International Monetary Fund, and the OECD predict that, on average, the European Union’s economy will grow by 1.9% next year, a rate that is broadly consistent with the average of 2% expected for this year.
This outlook may be justified, or it may be that markets are underestimating the likelihood of a severe second wave this winter, and overestimating the efficacy and impact of the first-generation vaccines.
The problem is that they have tended to focus too narrowly on monetary policy, while overestimating its effectiveness.