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overestimates

  • plural
    of overestimate.
    overestimate
    verb (used with object)
    to estimate at too high a value, amount, rate, or the like.
  • present tense form
    of overestimate (3rd person singular).
    overestimate
    verb (used with object)
    to estimate at too high a value, amount, rate, or the like.

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NBCUniversal executive Mark Marshall publicly criticized Nielsen, saying it overestimates streaming viewership at the expense of traditional media companies’ valuations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 14, 2026

While a partnership with one of the foremost AI developers would be “a vital long-term strategic move against AI search cannibalization,” the price action Thursday overestimates near-term accretion, Reese asserted.

From Barron's ● Mar. 6, 2026

It's tremendous knockabout stuff, but it rather overestimates the scale of the challenge Scotland have faced when playing against England in the Townsend era.

From BBC ● Feb. 13, 2026

When your congregation zealously overestimates the epistemological functionality of empiricism in the work of logical positivism, you trap the conversation of science and consciousness in your lethally boring Vienna wagon-Circling.

From Salon ● Apr. 1, 2024

This method overestimates the known range by only two percent.

From Comparative Ecology of Pinyon Mice and Deer Mice in Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado by Charles L. Douglas