overestimation

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Recent Examples of overestimation All four actors failed to achieve Actor Award recognition this year, signaling a possible overestimation of enthusiasm for this international Oscar contender. Jack Smart, PEOPLE, 7 Jan. 2026 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). 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 See All Example Sentences for overestimation
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Noun
  • That's a significant underestimation of their missing investment.
    Dave Etling, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
  • That’s probably an underestimation.
    Jim Edwards, Fortune, 24 June 2026
Noun
  • An investor who underwrites to the seller's tax line rather than the post-sale reassessment is buying a cap rate that will never actually exist for them.
    Tony Julianelle, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
  • Analysts say deteriorating geopolitical relations are driving the reassessment.
    Hugh Leask, CNBC, 17 June 2026
Noun
  • Kai Poma plans to conduct cultural and archaeological resource studies and environmental surveys and then prepare a resource management plan for the property, according to planning documents.
    Alex Wigglesworth Los Angeles Times, Arkansas Online, 5 July 2026
  • Kyle de Bruin, managing director at workplace research firm Leesman, said his firm’s surveys of roughly 100 to 130 large companies back this data up.
    Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 5 July 2026

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“Overestimation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overestimation. Accessed 15 Jul. 2026.

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