overvalue
verb (used with object)
have overvalued
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present perfectof overvalue.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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“Investors were coming into earnings season more concerned that they might have overvalued stocks,” said Ed Yardeni, president of Yardeni Research.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2025
They have overvalued some players and misjudged others, mostly on offense, where Tannenbaum’s acquisitions — or, in some cases, lack of them — are most glaring.
From New York Times ● Nov. 13, 2012
This means that in our accepted political and economic philosophy we have overvalued the organizing power of unregulated natural law, and have consequently undervalued the state as an agency for controlling and organizing industrial forces.
From The Spirit of American Government A Study Of The Constitution: Its Origin, Influence And Relation To Democracy by J. Allen (James Allen) Smith
Only the poorest part of his poetic equipment had propagated in her, and had he taught her anything, she would not have overvalued it so much.
From Heather and Snow by George MacDonald
Now that he had thrown that precious chance away, he might well have overvalued it.
From The Kentons by William Dean Howells
