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Underestimate in sentence

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No one should underestimate the growth challenge facing today’s global economy.
But let us not underestimate the magnitude of the task that European governments took on.
But one should not underestimate India’s problems.
While this need not matter to her too much as long as she retains the chancellorship, in Sigmar Gabriel, the SPD’s leader, she faces – for the first time – an opponent whom she would underestimate at her peril.
Modern European history gives us ample evidence that wars and suffering are most likely when democracies underestimate self-defense in peacetime, or fail to summon enough readiness to defend themselves before it is too late.
But no one should ever underestimate the power of hatred to undermine a democracy from within.
And the culture is changing, too, with men less likely to underestimate their female counterparts.
Iran’s leaders underestimate the explosive nature of this issue, and how it is answered, for the US as a global power and thus for its own future.
But nor should one underestimate the importance of political leadership.
But one must not underestimate the endurance of values like tolerance and solidarity within European societies.
It is important not to underestimate the cultural change that this will require of governments and economic advisers.
Many argue that bankers’ belief that their institutions are too big to fail and that their jobs are safe encourages them to underestimate the risks that they assume.
Yet experts and partners often underestimate our determination.
We should not underestimate the creativity of financiers seeking to escape capital requirements and leverage up.
We have a tendency to underestimate both the probabilities and consequences of what in the investment world are called “left-tailed events.”
We do not underestimate the magnitude of the reforms that Europe has achieved in recent years.
Indeed, the study may actually significantly underestimate the costs: for instance, climate change may lead to more weather variability, a possible disappearance or major shift of the Gulf Stream – of particular concern to Europe – and a flourishing of disease.
In other words, Americans overestimate upward social mobility and underestimate the likelihood of remaining stuck in poverty for generations.
By contrast, respondents underestimate social mobility in northern states – including Vermont, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Washington – where it is higher.
Moreover, we underestimate the younger generation of scientists.
First, no one should underestimate the next US president.
This approach failed spectacularly when it was adopted in the 1970s, causing the Fed to underestimate virulent inflation.
Yet most Europeans continue to underestimate Russian President Vladimir Putin’s cyber and propaganda war against the West – a war that aims to help bring to power far-right populists bent on the EU’s destruction.
In that case, one should not underestimate the pernicious effects of Israel’s Holocaust complex.
The West should not underestimate its leverage.
But investors seem to underestimate how dysfunctional US national politics has become.
That insistence reflects the attachment of policymakers in the EU – especially in Germany – to a conceptual framework that has led them consistently to underestimate the gravity of the situation and recommend policies that make matters worse.
Environmentalists sometimes underestimate the benefits of technological and economic progress when they reason that a finite supply of resources must imply their eventual exhaustion.
But we should not underestimate the leverage of public spending.
And, again, even this more substantial rise probably represents a substantial underestimate of the increase in the real standard of living.
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