overestimate in English

noun
1
an excessively high estimate.
Such effects would include: overestimates or underestimates of results during the observation and recording phase of an experiment, errors in interpreting the data, and the fabrication of data.
verb
1
estimate (something) to be better, larger, or more important than it really is.
his influence cannot be overestimated
noun
  • overvaluationoverestimation
  • overratingoverestimation
verb

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Below are sample sentences containing the word "overestimate" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "overestimate", or refer to the context using the word "overestimate" in the English Dictionary.

1. Most of the time, they overestimate.

2. Don't overestimate seriousness of the problem.

3. We overestimate our longevity, our career prospects.

4. He tends to overestimate his own abilities.

5. The figure of 30% is clearly an overestimate.

6. People overestimate the cost of an endeavor like this.

7. They invariably overestimate their own strength and underestimate ours.

8. While girls lack confidence, boys often overestimate their abilities.

9. It is hard to overestimate the impact of the crisis.

10. It is hard to overestimate the potential gains from this process.

11. Never overestimate your ability or strength when swimming in the ocean.

12. We thought the job would cost $5000, but this was an overestimate.

13. Animal skin is generally more permeable and therefore may overestimate human percutaneous absorption

14. Ultimately, because non-pecuniary externalities overestimate the social value, they are over-produced.

15. Most historians at the moment would regard that as a wild overestimate.

16. It is easy to overestimate the cost of this kind of research.

17. The research also suggests that farmers overestimate the size of the fox population.

18. After this it may be possible to evaluate whether he did overestimate its importance.

19. Never underestimate your power to change yourself. Never overestimate your power to change others.

20. We systematically overestimate the amount of wellbeing associated with high incomes and long work hours.

21. This might be due to a sensitive, introverted disposition or even to an overestimate of oneself.

22. Research shows that people consistently overestimate the time they spend working and underestimate their leisure time.

23. I thought it would cost about £300, but luckily that turned out to be an overestimate.

24. This overestimate, coupled with depressed metal prices, led to the near abandonment of nodule mining by 1982.

25. According to our results, previous studies overestimate the positive long-term effects of self-employment on job satisfaction.

26. 12 We forget about unpredictability when it is our turn to predict, and overestimate our own knowledge.

27. So the AWS incidence rates for pregnancy-related absence may overestimate the prevalence of formal maternity leave.

28. An Admissible heuristic is simply one that, as you said, does not overestimate the distance to a goal

29. It could be argued that this apparent overestimate is a true reflection of the total amount of uplift.

30. It would be difficult to overestimate the importance of the bony fish in the economy of the sea.

31. Future sell-through reports are more likely to overestimate available inventory due to activity since the report was started.

32. Note: It is usually best to overestimate the amount of time you will need to accomplish a particular task.

33. Persons exposed to particular risks may not know precisely what those risks are and may either overestimate or underestimate them.

34. When computing uplift from a Marie-type graph such situations would give rise to an overestimate of uplift for the Carboniferous.

35. In general they overestimate the amount available and underestimate the time wasted by being fragmented in small amounts on rather trivial matters.

36. The scope for being snobbish, competitive, judgmental, Braggish (humble or otherwise) and a long list of other petty vices is hard to overestimate

37. If nubbliest or lofty Dwight usually overestimate his distich situated thirdly or Botanises satanically and unshrinkingly, how topographical is Toddie? To address the mission of on sermon

38. For stocks that have been heavily exploited and have low spawner values, measurement error tends to result in an overestimate of log alpha(tilde), usually by 5%.

39. If you're pregnant or breast-feeding, are a competitive athlete, or have a metabolic disease, such as diabetes, the Calorie calculator may overestimate or underestimate your actual Calorie needs

40. Bris Arturo, and Maryam Zargari (2021), “A Bullshit Job? A Global Study on the Value of CEOs” This paper presents strong evidence that existing studies overestimate the impact of CEOs on the performance of the firms they lead

41. As of 2014 about 80 species of Bacteria were known to be capable of transformation, about evenly divided between gram-positive and gram-negative Bacteria; the number might be an overestimate since several of the reports are supported by single papers.

42. Contrariwise, other snakes, which are harmless, lay eggs and hatch a vast number of young. MYTHICAL MONSTERS CHARLES GOULD It is easy to overestimate the influence of any single man, and, Contrariwise, to underestimate the power of the Zeitgeist

43. Theoretically, this should mean that the lean body mass of Blacks is denser than that of Whites, such that formulas for calculating lean body mass from density in Whites will overestimate the lean body mass (and thus underestimate fatness) in Blacks.

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