I. verb
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A Harvard University survey found that Americans significantly overestimate the cost of higher education.
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I made enough food for forty people but it looks like I overestimated.
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Never overestimate your ability or strength when swimming in the ocean.
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People overestimated the risk of catching the disease.
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The generals had overestimated the strength of the enemy forces.
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We overestimated how long the journey would take, and arrived far too early.
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After this it may be possible to evaluate whether he did overestimate its importance.
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Biased estimates of variation in reproductive success may also cause the effects of particular phenotypic traits on reproductive success to be overestimated.
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Even with that bleak assessment, however, Richard Helms overestimated his true influence.
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In his budget and health care proposals, Clinton overestimated the public tolerance for new government programs.
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It is hard to overestimate the impact of the crisis.
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Some observers believe polls overestimated the influence of undecided voters.
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The second mistake was overestimating the cost of memory.
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The significance of this result, whose outlines have been generally confirmed since, can hardly be overestimated.
II. noun
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We thought the job would cost $5000, but this was an overestimate .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Even if most figures for waste are not overestimates, national statistics tell a less-than-apocalyptic tale.
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Even this short period spent in Stages and 4 may be an overestimate .
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It could be argued that this apparent overestimate is a true reflection of the total amount of uplift.
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Most historians at the moment would regard that as a wild overestimate .
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These areas have apparently acquired an enhanced vitrinite reflectance which has led to an apparent overestimate of uplift.
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When computing uplift from a Marie-type graph such situations would give rise to an overestimate of uplift for the Carboniferous.