overemphasis
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I ended up a contract worker at a tech giant, making less than the staffing agency that placed me—but I learned plenty about the industry’s overemphasis on tech and underemphasis on substance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 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
Still, a subset of F1 devotees complain about what they see as an overemphasis on entertainment and ginned-up drama.
From New York Times ● May 13, 2023
He was a big man, of a mingled Slavic and Oriental cast of countenance, and had nothing more awful about him than a tendency to overemphasis.
From The High Heart by King, Basil
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