underemphasize
Americanverb (used with object)
Etymology
Origin of underemphasize
Example Sentences
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Because of deep-rooted racial and cultural and business ties, we are prone to overconcentrate on happenings and events to our east and to underemphasize the importance of those to our west.
From Time Magazine Archive
Last year under defensive coordinator Ed Donatell, Smith frequently found himself in two-deep shell coverage that underemphasized his strengths.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 4, 2023
But its producers are hoping to highlight underemphasized aspects of policing, such as officers building relationships with the community.
From New York Times ● Oct. 3, 2022
The influence of behavior on evolution “is an underemphasized problem that has not received nearly enough attention,” says Harry Greene, an emeritus evolutionary biologist at the University of Texas, Austin.
From Science Magazine ● Sep. 22, 2022
You write about the underemphasized importance of Filipino workers in Seattle labor history.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 29, 2022
Disappointingly, the media, and sometimes Harris herself, has underemphasized her South Asian heritage.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 12, 2019
“The cost,” he told me in January, “is underemphasizing excellence and performance and the need to develop competitive prowess.”
From New York Times ● Jul. 15, 2020
Wait, stop, I’m underemphasizing the big thing: I’m swimming!
From New York Times ● Aug. 11, 2016
Wang said the government's assessment method overemphasizes the role of the electric power industry, for example, while underemphasizing the effects that many small polluters have on the environment.
From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2015
The movie is thankfully explicit and unsensational, neither underemphasizing the nature and intensity of each shoot nor overstating the symbolic significance of any scene.
From Forbes ● Nov. 20, 2014
The faulty perspective consists in overemphasizing lesser problems and thereby underemphasizing the first and greatest problem.
From State of the Union Address by Roosevelt, Franklin Delano
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