How to Use overestimation in a Sentence

overestimation

noun

• The main thing is, this is a completely obvious overestimation of the potential (the supply of tanks) would add to the armed forces of Ukraine.
  — Tara Copp, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Jan. 2023
• This type of false thinking can also lead to an overestimation of market size.
  — Todd Juneau, Forbes, 6 Apr. 2021
• Third is a massive overestimation on the Russian military - both its will to fight and its ability to fight.
  — CBS News, 18 May 2022
• According to the authors of the rebuttal, the dating technique that had been used for the 2018 findings had been flawed, resulting in the possible overestimation of the arts’ age.
  — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 21 June 2023
• The survey also found a consistent overestimation of the size of ethnic and racial minority groups.
  — Emily Willingham, Scientific American, 27 Apr. 2022
• That leads to overestimation of progress in extending internet to the entire country, Cooper said.
  — al, 22 May 2021
• This can lead to misleading overestimation of the effect that a policy can have nationwide.
  — Omar Al-Ubaydli john A. List, WIRED, 22 Dec. 2022
• Water experts say overuse, drought, and the drying effects of climate change have contributed to shortages, along with overestimations of available water.
  — Sarah Matusek, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Sep. 2023
• That is probably hubris, the overestimation of one’s own power that was regularly punished in Greek legends.
  — Bill Conerly, Forbes, 15 June 2022
• Kids tend to have a misperception, an overestimation, to be specific, of how much other college students drink, as well as how much alcohol matters to them.
  — Elissa Strauss, CNN, 6 Apr. 2021
• The overestimation of short-term rental counts highlights how little this issue has to do with housing shortages, while the city already has abundant rules already in place to address noise, security and parking issues.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Dec. 2022
• Even the small number of potentially ineligible ballots that the Trump report claims were cast by dead people may be an overestimation.
  — Josh Dawsey, Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2023
• Even with some potential model overestimation, confidence is growing that a truly historic heat wave is on tap.
  — Todd Nelson, Star Tribune, 25 June 2021
• The crackdowns are also fueled by an overestimation in Egypt and Saudi Arabia of their strategic importance to America in 2021, analysts say.
  — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Dec. 2020
• This gives an overestimation of 37.5 percentage points without any humans involved.
  — Eric C. Gaze, Fortune, 8 May 2023
• Their small sample size may have contributed to their overestimation of the European component to admixture (i.e., to cluster assignment).
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 2 July 2010
• This could lead to an overestimation of emissions savings from EVs and potentially less-strict emissions regulations for gasoline vehicles.
  — John Paul Helveston, Scientific American, 13 Dec. 2023
• There may be an overestimation of the number of people with vitamin D deficiency because many labs appear to be using cutpoints that are higher than the evidence indicates are appropriate.
  — Andrew Moseman, Discover Magazine, 1 Dec. 2010
• On the other hand, the increase in underestimation was accompanied by a decrease in overestimation, mostly accounted for by changes in how girls reported experiencing their weight.
  — Haley Weiss, Time, 7 July 2023
• But people should beware an overestimation of politics, and an overestimation of presidential powers.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 28 June 2023
• The underestimation or overestimation of risk factors that BMI sometimes causes is especially true for certain populations.
  — Suzie Glassman, Health.com, 31 Jan. 2022
• That overestimation may have contributed to an unrecognized or delayed recognition of a patient's eligibility to receive certain Covid-19 therapies.
  — Jacqueline Howard, CNN, 11 July 2022
• That overestimation may have contributed to an unrecognized or delayed recognition of someone’s eligibility to receive certain Covid-19 therapies.
  — Jacqueline Howard, CNN, 1 Nov. 2022

Last Updated: 2 Oct 2024