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Recent Examples of overestimation
The study found that the incorrect, older models led to a significant bias in criticality calculations, causing an artificial overestimation of the reactor’s effective neutron multiplication factor (keff).
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Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 1 Oct. 2025
Even if that number is a vast overestimation, and the death toll from all nuclear accidents were a vast underestimation, splitting atoms in nuclear power stations is still one of the safest things that humanity does.
—Big Think, 14 Aug. 2025
This was later updated to reflect a 598,000 overestimation in previous data.
—Hugh Cameron, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Aug. 2025
The possible overestimation could be due to a change in the direction of the tsunami’s energy.
—Andrea Klick, Oc Register, 30 July 2025
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Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 1 Oct. 2025
Even if that number is a vast overestimation, and the death toll from all nuclear accidents were a vast underestimation, splitting atoms in nuclear power stations is still one of the safest things that humanity does.
—Big Think, 14 Aug. 2025
This was later updated to reflect a 598,000 overestimation in previous data.
—Hugh Cameron, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Aug. 2025
The possible overestimation could be due to a change in the direction of the tsunami’s energy.
—Andrea Klick, Oc Register, 30 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for overestimation
Noun
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For Smith-Njigba, underestimation precedes dominance.—
Adam Kilgore,
Washington Post,
5 Feb. 2026
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As the only female taxi driver working her corner of Nigeria’s heaving metropolis, Lady is accustomed to underestimation by a callous patriarchy, and staunchly resists the gender normatives implied by her name.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
23 Jan. 2026
Noun
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That will certainly mean a reassessment and a broadening of Holocaust histories as time goes on.—
Chad S.A. Gibbs,
The Conversation,
9 Apr. 2026
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Pakistan’s turn on the Afghan Taliban is a reckoning that didn’t come because of some deep internal strategic reassessment or something like that.—
Isaac Chotiner,
New Yorker,
30 Mar. 2026
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The tech titan and Temu both held the same 24 percent share of the cross-border e-commerce market in 2025, despite Temu holding just 1 percent of share in 2022, according to a survey by postal services provider International Post Corp.—
Glenn Taylor,
Footwear News,
22 Apr. 2026
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The two will be hosting a LinkedIn Live later this evening to further unpack the survey’s findings.—
Elektra Kotsoni,
Vogue,
22 Apr. 2026
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“Overestimation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overestimation. Accessed 24 Apr. 2026.
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