overemphasis
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There were incorrect mathematical analyses, reliance on four poor-quality trials and the overemphasis of the study in children.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 27, 2026
An overemphasis on winning risks rewarding the vigilant while exhausting everyone.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 8, 2026
Thomas Dee, a Stanford University education professor and economist, warns that an overemphasis on telling parents to send their children to school with a cold could backfire.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2025
That dirty fuel, the overemphasis on external markers of achievement, will get you a short term win.
From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2023
We may admit that there is a good deal of overemphasis in this statement, but the doctrine itself does not seem strange or sensational to-day.
From Socialism A Summary and Interpretation of Socialist Principles by John Spargo
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