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
Tell me not that I have overvalued you, for your brain is clear, your courage thick.
From Conquest Over Time by Michael Shaara
Sir, I am very truly yours; if you have overvalued me in any capacity, I will do what I can to overtake your hopes of me.
From Letters to Severall Persons of Honour by John Donne
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
