Example collocations logo

Underestimate in sentence

186 examples of Underestimate in a sentence

The most persuasive hypothesis is that – like former FBI Director James Comey and Dean Baquet, the executive editor of The New York Times – they ignored polling that did not underestimate the risk of a Trump victory.
I believe that such views significantly underestimate both the current and future risks involved.
They also argue that migrants dilute the recipient country’s culture and traditions – a claim with an emotional pull that economists often underestimate.
So looking only at the cost of a meal or of a day in the hospital causes an overestimate in the price index and an underestimate of the rise in the real standard of living.
We should not underestimate humans’ abilities to inflict damage on their community, their environment, and even the entire planet.
Yet the tech sector itself still seems to underestimate its growing systemic importance.
Many commentators underestimate the prime minister’s powers.
As a result, they underestimate the downside risks of crowdsourcing.
Nobody should underestimate the difficulty of rebuilding Sri Lanka’s war-ravaged north and reconciling the Tamils at a time of global recession.
The experience of the Great Depression led Keynes and his more orthodox successors to greatly underestimate the role and influence of monetary policy.
At the same time, it would be as dangerous to overestimate the Islamic State’s capabilities today as it was to underestimate them yesterday.
Moreover, both the short-term and long-term unemployment rates underestimate the slack in the labor market caused by the significant and sustained decline in the labor-force participation rate (LFPR) since the recession began.
Many outsiders underestimate or purposefully minimize the “Arabness” of the Arab world.
In other words, we should not underestimate the Chinese economy’s potential to converge toward developed countries.
And even this is a significant underestimate.
It would be dangerous to underestimate the depth of so wide an emotional divide, and to recognize its existence is the first step to overcoming it.
One should not underestimate the opposition that reforms continue to face among Greeks.
French politicians underestimate the negative impact they have in these countries when they repeatedly refer to a Paris-Berlin-Moscow axis and criticize “excessive” enthusiasm for the transatlantic alliance.
While he has seemingly lost touch with the French people, he is deeply aware of and wounded by his declining popularity, and no one should underestimate his ability to reinvent himself with a new government after the municipal elections and greater distance from his immediate entourage.
This arises when executives have overly narrow views of their industry, underestimate their competitors’ capabilities, or fail to see how the competitive landscape is changing.
Even preeminent researchers may underestimate the significance of their findings at the time they obtain them.
Indeed, no one should underestimate the magnitude of the challenge now facing South Africa, the host of next year’s talks, in terms of midwifing a new legally binding agreement to bridge this gap and securing the finance needed to bring the Green Fund into operation.
Of course, it is impossible to underestimate the combination of suspicion, tension, and exasperation that characterizes Franco-German relations lately.
It is also easy to underestimate the dose being taken, because there is a wide variety in the strength of cannabis.
We should not underestimate China’s capacity to handle both longstanding and new challenges, including the trade war that Trump has initiated.
India’s New Path to GreatnessSINGAPORE – It is unwise to underestimate the near-metaphysical significance of the recent Indian elections.
The center of the Western political spectrum has tended to underestimate the impact of rising inequality within countries, focusing instead on the benefits of market opening and integration, such as the unprecedentedly rapid reduction in global poverty.
At the International Monetary Fund’s annual meeting in October, the Fund’s chief economist, Olivier Blanchard fueled the controversy by pointing out that in recent times governments have tended to underestimate the adverse growth consequences of fiscal consolidation.
The rest of Europe – particularly my own country, France – tends to ignore Italy when things go well and to underestimate the potential consequences when things go badly.
Clearly, no one in Europe should underestimate the challenges ahead.
Back