overestimation

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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. 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 See All Example Sentences for overestimation
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survey
Noun
  • Students have ranked the undergraduate program highly, with the school receiving top marks in the country’s national student survey for the second year in a row, including in quality of teaching and learning opportunities.
    Caitlin Huston, HollywoodReporter, 23 June 2025
  • June 17-17: Trump’s net approval rating improved two points in the latest Pew Research survey taken June 2-8, compared to the group’s last poll in April, with the latest survey showing 41% approve and 58% disapprove (the survey of 5,044 U.S. adults has a 1.6-point margin of error).
    Sara Dorn, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025

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“Overestimation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overestimation. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.

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