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Recent Examples of overestimation
Such hyperbole, taken at face value, has contributed to the Trump administration’s overestimation of the chances that tariffs would force China to the negotiating table.
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Zongyuan Zoe Liu, Foreign Affairs, 29 Apr. 2025
The upshot of this free cash flow overestimation is that analysts have been overestimating Tesla’s fundamental value for years.
—Hersh Shefrin, Forbes.com, 5 Apr. 2025
This underperformance of Pfizer stock can be attributed to declining revenues after the surge in Covid-19 vaccine demand during the pandemic and the company’s overestimation of Covid-19 products demand in the long run.
—Trefis Team, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
The overestimation caused by incorrect arm positioning, particularly the unsupported arm at the side, could easily lead to misdiagnoses of hypertension.
—Srishti Gupta, Interesting Engineering, 7 Oct. 2024
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Zongyuan Zoe Liu, Foreign Affairs, 29 Apr. 2025
The upshot of this free cash flow overestimation is that analysts have been overestimating Tesla’s fundamental value for years.
—Hersh Shefrin, Forbes.com, 5 Apr. 2025
This underperformance of Pfizer stock can be attributed to declining revenues after the surge in Covid-19 vaccine demand during the pandemic and the company’s overestimation of Covid-19 products demand in the long run.
—Trefis Team, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
The overestimation caused by incorrect arm positioning, particularly the unsupported arm at the side, could easily lead to misdiagnoses of hypertension.
—Srishti Gupta, Interesting Engineering, 7 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for overestimation
survey
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The decline was due to job gains of 93,000 in the household survey and a reduction of 130,000 in the labor force.—
Bill Stone,
Forbes.com,
5 July 2025
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Polls indicated that Cuomo led Mamdani among Black voters by a significant margin, with one survey showing the former governor at 59 percent support compared to Mamdani's 26 percent.—
Gabe Whisnant,
MSNBC Newsweek,
5 July 2025
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“Overestimation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overestimation. Accessed 8 Jul. 2025.
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