Example Sentences

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Walgreens: A top Walgreens executive conceded that pharmacy chain brass may have overemphasized the threat of organized retail theft in San Francisco, The San Francisco Chronicle reports.

From New York Times • Jan. 6, 2023

“For several years, industry participants have overemphasized zero-sum competition, aggressive marketing, reckless expansion, short-term growth and corporate benefits, overlooking the most important elements of sustainable growth,” he said.

From Washington Post • May 16, 2022

“We believe we have overemphasized the performance aspect of what our customers want in terms of athletically inspired apparel,” Chief Executive Dick Johnson said in late February.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2016

Gilmore and Sugrue dismiss historians who have overemphasized the role of business elites in backing these imperialist ventures and instead underscore that many liberal-minded progressives supported these wars, too.

From Slate • Nov. 2, 2015

Educational writers have overemphasized the original nature of the child as a basis of interest and have not paid enough attention to acquired nature.

From The Science of Human Nature A Psychology for Beginners by Pyle, William Henry