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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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Those ratings create an estimate of how many goals each team is expected to score and allow in a game against an average opponent at a neutral site.—
Dom Luszczyszyn,
New York Times,
25 May 2026
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According to the Town of Atlantic Beach, estimates from recent years suggest that crowds can range from 300,000 to 400,000 attendees.—
Drew Pittock,
USA Today,
25 May 2026
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In under ninety days, Hermes moved from release to dominance, and many enterprise teams were still mid-evaluation on OpenClaw when the market had already moved past them.—
Sandy Carter,
Forbes.com,
25 May 2026
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Keeping some of these companies viable for the next few years could be critical to ensuring that these technologies receive a full evaluation against those standards.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
25 May 2026
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His latest obsession — aired out in part in Red Sheet, his 18th novel, out June 9 — is the Blacklist, which in Ellroy’s estimation was a greatly misunderstood act of flag-waving righteousness that Hollywood has been scandalously misrepresenting ever since.—
Seth Abramovitch,
HollywoodReporter,
20 May 2026
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The amount of vitriol aimed at Amanda versus West has been wildly disproportionate, in my estimation.—
Marlow Stern,
Variety,
20 May 2026
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Whether Crane agrees with that assessment could determine much of the team’s deadline plans.—
Chandler Rome,
New York Times,
25 May 2026
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Aurora officials also failed to properly train officers on threat assessments, de-escalation, warnings and the constitutional limits on deadly force, the lawsuit alleges.—
Lauren Penington,
Denver Post,
25 May 2026
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At the time, commissioners cited concerns tied to the county’s controversial $42 million purchase of an office building, including allegations that an appraisal valuing the building significantly lower than the purchase price was not properly disclosed during the financing approval process.—
Nora O'Neill,
Charlotte Observer,
19 May 2026
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But donations in kind trigger special rules, including about appraisals.—
Robert W. Wood,
Forbes.com,
18 May 2026
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Bilingual interviewers began the interview in English and were instructed to follow the lead of the respondent in determining whether to conduct the survey in English or Spanish.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
21 May 2026
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But, as seen in her mid-career survey at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 2019, and later as the exhibition traveled to the Whitney Museum in 2021, her work came to grapple with legacies of displacement, protest, capitalism, and climate change.—
Lilyanna D'Amato,
ARTnews.com,
20 May 2026
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That was the reckoning over social media.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
20 May 2026
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What a reckoning that must have been.—
Lacey Rose,
HollywoodReporter,
20 May 2026
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Per ARTnews, Spain’s Court of Auditors has been critical of the Reina Sofía’s cataloguing methods for years, and government officials are now asking for a physical accounting of the over 25,000 artworks in the museum; as well as comprehensive financial valuations.—
News Desk,
Artforum,
22 May 2026
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And corporate earnings are lagging behind stock market valuations.—
Semafor Events,
semafor.com,
22 May 2026
Cite this Entry
“Underestimation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/underestimation. Accessed 26 May. 2026.
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