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Recent Examples of underestimation
For Smith-Njigba, underestimation precedes dominance.
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Adam Kilgore, Washington Post, 5 Feb. 2026
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
The company has become established within the fintech community, with a trajectory defined not by underestimation, but by vision and execution.
—Matthew Kayser, USA Today, 12 Nov. 2025
These numbers are likely an underestimation, though.
—Ana González Vilá, Rolling Stone, 25 Sep. 2025
There are a couple of reasons to think that this is an underestimation of the impact, as well.
—John Timmer, ArsTechnica, 25 Sep. 2025
Limitations The study was limited by a number of factors, including its short duration, the inclusion of relatively healthy and mostly White participants, and the possible underestimation of effects in individuals with higher baseline inflammation.
—Deirdre Bardolf, FOXNews.com, 16 Sep. 2025
For policymakers and investors alike, ignoring these signs risks the underestimation of broader economic fragility.
—Richard Fowler, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Too much underestimation of Jensen Huang and his relationship with the president.
—Jim Cramer, CNBC, 24 Aug. 2025
Adam Kilgore, Washington Post, 5 Feb. 2026
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
The company has become established within the fintech community, with a trajectory defined not by underestimation, but by vision and execution.
—Matthew Kayser, USA Today, 12 Nov. 2025
These numbers are likely an underestimation, though.
—Ana González Vilá, Rolling Stone, 25 Sep. 2025
There are a couple of reasons to think that this is an underestimation of the impact, as well.
—John Timmer, ArsTechnica, 25 Sep. 2025
Limitations The study was limited by a number of factors, including its short duration, the inclusion of relatively healthy and mostly White participants, and the possible underestimation of effects in individuals with higher baseline inflammation.
—Deirdre Bardolf, FOXNews.com, 16 Sep. 2025
For policymakers and investors alike, ignoring these signs risks the underestimation of broader economic fragility.
—Richard Fowler, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Too much underestimation of Jensen Huang and his relationship with the president.
—Jim Cramer, CNBC, 24 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for underestimation
Noun
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The jobs help generate nearly $3 billion in annual economic output, according to estimates from the Pennsylvania Manufacturers' Association.—
Stephanie Armour,
CBS News,
13 Apr. 2026
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The first, a 1925 Wassily Kandinsky abstraction called Rote Tiefe (Red Depth), has a $12 million–$18 million estimate.—
Alex Greenberger,
ARTnews.com,
13 Apr. 2026
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The veterinary team immediately brought the puppy inside, did a medical evaluation, and contacted Animal Services.—
Michele Gile,
CBS News,
14 Apr. 2026
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Rescue teams quickly mobilized and began efforts to retrieve and assess the pigeons, which will each require veterinary evaluations, medication, and parasite treatment.—
Moná Thomas,
PEOPLE,
13 Apr. 2026
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Gracia agreed with that estimation, especially if his plans to eventually build a trade school on the property eventually come to fruition.—
Samuel O’Neal
Updated April 10,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
10 Apr. 2026
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In Hanrahan’s estimation, the White House has lost track of what resonates online.—
Ali Breland,
The Atlantic,
10 Apr. 2026
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What’s the point of building formative assessments into a course if they’re just handed off to an LLM?—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
13 Apr. 2026
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So there is a risk assessment that folks are doing in real time.—
Ximena Bustillo,
NPR,
13 Apr. 2026
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This collection of poems is a transcendent appraisal of the blood that was extracted from Black bodies.—
Diana Arterian,
Literary Hub,
7 Apr. 2026
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Their appraisal underscored the challenges the Survivors’ Act was encountering in the courtroom.—
Pamela Colloff,
ProPublica,
24 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Trump recently received his lowest approval ratings in both terms, with 59% of respondents disapproving of him and 47% strongly disapproving, according to a March Fox News survey.—
Sydney Topf,
The Washington Examiner,
8 Apr. 2026
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According to Great Place to Work survey data, Southeast Asian employees who believed their employers offered special and unique benefits were 22% more likely to want to continue working at their companies.—
Alice Williams,
Fortune,
8 Apr. 2026
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The long-running series is enjoying its latest act on Netflix after previously airing on Fox and USA, tantalizing viewers by thrusting four couples due for a reckoning into an exotic locale overflowing with sultry singles whose only goal is to flirt.—
Randall Colburn,
Entertainment Weekly,
11 Apr. 2026
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But regardless of whether Mythos lives up to its hype, industry experts largely agree that a period of reckoning is likely coming soon, when hackers will be able to use AI to give them more of an advantage over their victims than ever before.—
Kevin Collier,
NBC news,
11 Apr. 2026
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The startup declined to disclose its valuation.—
Evelyn Cheng,
CNBC,
10 Apr. 2026
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And Periodic Labs, co-founded by former researchers at Google and OpenAI, is currently fundraising at a $7 billion valuation.—
Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
9 Apr. 2026
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“Underestimation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/underestimation. Accessed 14 Apr. 2026.
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