as in underestimating
to place too low a value on
it's perhaps the most underrated film of the last decade
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underestimating
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Instead, the Iran war has driven inflation worries, and Deutsche Bank research suggested policymakers were also likely to compensate for underestimating inflation in years past.—
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But those who in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries made erroneous predictions of imminent mass starvation erred by underestimating the world‑changing potential of grasses.—
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“Underrating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/underrating. Accessed 31 Mar. 2026.
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