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Recent Examples of Synonyms for overestimations
Noun
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That decline in leadership shows up in authoritative surveys like the Pew Research Center’s benchmark poll, which finds that trust in government to do what’s right is hovering near historic lows.—
The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
10 Mar. 2026 -
The first poll will be released on March 24, and then five additional surveys will come out every seven to 10 days until voters start receiving mail ballots in early May.—
Seema Mehta,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Mar. 2026
Noun
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The discrepancies tended to be largest in lower-income regions, including parts of Africa, Southeast Asia and the Pacific, where there are typically fewer local tide gauges and direct ocean measurements; these places are more reliant on models that perform poorly there.—
Marcos Magaña,
Los Angeles Times,
7 Mar. 2026
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The team was surprised to find that the face size, as well as the shape and measurements of her eye sockets, were also more similar to the East African Australopithecus fossils, despite the fact that Little Foot was found in South Africa.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
7 Mar. 2026
Noun
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But this year, those calculations may look a little different.—
Lydia Mansel,
Travel + Leisure,
7 Mar. 2026
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This reduced the problem to a finite number of calculations — at least in theory.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
6 Mar. 2026
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“Overestimations.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overestimations. Accessed 13 Mar. 2026.
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