overestimated

verb

past tense of overestimate
as in valued
to place too high a value on the contractors overestimated their ability to do the work on such short notice

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Recent Examples of overestimated Barely a month ago, there was plenty of fretting that FIFA had grossly overestimated the crowds that would descend on the tournament’s host cities and stadiums. — Henri Hollis, AJC.com, 9 July 2026 But both industries may have overestimated an entertainment economy increasingly comfortable confusing quantity with quality. — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 7 July 2026 Historian Sandgruber describes how Alois Hitler wrote his 1895 letters in a deeply smug, anti-clerical manner that overestimated his abilities. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 June 2026 Zwick says subsequent research has found that Hsieh and Moretti overestimated the size of that effect on economic growth. — Greg Rosalsky, NPR, 23 June 2026 Struck in 1922 during an unusually wet period, the Colorado River Compact overestimated how much water the river could provide. — The Week Us, TheWeek, 8 June 2026 Most students in the survey overestimated the earning power of their degrees. — Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 29 May 2026 Options pricing has overestimated the size of Nvidia’s post-report swing six of the past seven quarters, and 14 of the past 20, according to Cboe LiveVol data. — Oliver Renick, CNBC, 20 May 2026 Insurers, hospitals, and policy experts took issue with the methodology Paragon used to estimate improper enrollments, saying they likely were vastly overestimated. — Julie Appleby, CBS News, 19 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for overestimated
  1. valued
  2. appreciated
  3. admired
  4. overvalued
  5. overrated
Verb
  • In April 2022, following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the UK banned the export to Russia of luxury items valued over £250 ($330), including art and antiques.
    — News Desk, Artforum, 10 July 2026
  • Tiny valued Letterboxd at $50 million back then and is now seeking a valuation of $250 million.
    — Brian Welk, IndieWire, 10 July 2026
Definition of valued
Verb
  • The rabbits, however, divided their forces and swarmed both flanks of the coach (a move Napoleon surely could have appreciated).
    — Britannica Editors, Encyclopedia Britannica, 6 July 2026
  • Caparelli-Ruff said the office appreciated working with the County Board to receive bipartisan support for school safety improvements.
    — Michelle Mullins, Chicago Tribune, 5 July 2026
Definition of appreciated
Verb
  • In a society grappling with Darwinian evolution and the new discipline of psychology, some Westerners admired Buddhism’s long history of studying the mind’s activities.
    — Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 7 July 2026
  • Pitt, 62, and Swift, 36, have admired each other's work over the years.
    — Edward Segarra, USA Today, 7 July 2026
Definition of admired
Verb
  • This year, the sector has seen more volatile trade, as investors have questioned whether companies can meet the growing demand and whether some pockets of the industry are overvalued.
    — Chloe Taylor, CNBC, 8 July 2026
  • The conventional wisdom in sports finance is that American franchises—the NFL, NBA, MLB—are grotesquely overvalued by any traditional metric.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 28 June 2026
Definition of overvalued
Verb
  • Defensively, Johnson’s switchability has perhaps been overrated.
    — David Aldridge, New York Times, 24 June 2026
  • In many cases, pilots are overrated.
    — Ashwin Gaidhani, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
Definition of overrated

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