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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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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
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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 6 Jul. 2025.
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