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Recent Examples of underrate His passing has been underrated, while he can regularly be seen instructing Balde to his left and Pau Cubarsi to his right on positioning and organisation. Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 16 May 2025 There are a lot of reasons why great movies can be underrated, ignored, or even reviled. Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 9 May 2025 He's not underrated as a driver, but he's underrated in a lot of categories off the racetrack. Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Apr. 2025 But that’s no reason to underrate the Doug Liman–directed The Bourne Identity, which introduced Matt Damon as Robert Ludlum’s amnesia-suffering CIA agent Jason Bourne. Keith Phipps, Vulture, 19 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for underrate
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underestimate
Verb
  • The footwork to shuffle across is not to be underestimated.
    Mark Carey, New York Times, 6 July 2025
  • With many Texans traveling or vacationing over the Fourth of July weekend, officials are especially concerned about people underestimating the risks near waterways.
    Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 July 2025

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“Underrate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/underrate. Accessed 14 Jul. 2025.

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