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
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
"Dirty fuel, the overemphasis on external markers of achievement," she says, "over time is going to clog up your kid's engine."
From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2023
Society is, on the whole, protected against the danger of overemphasis on the aesthetic interest, through the habitual subordination of it in public opinion to standards of efficiency.
From The Moral Economy by Ralph Barton Perry
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