overemphasis
Americannoun
Other Word Forms
- overemphatic adjective
Etymology
Origin of overemphasis
Example Sentences
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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
“I think that actually goes part and parcel with some of the overemphasis on these big highway widening projects.”
From Seattle Times • May 31, 2024
That dirty fuel, the overemphasis on external markers of achievement, will get you a short term win.
From Salon • Aug. 26, 2023
In practice, overemphasis upon formed material leads to an exaggeration of mathematical qualities, since intellect finds its profit in physical things from matters of size, form, and proportion and the relations that flow from them.
From Democracy and Education: an introduction to the philosophy of education by Dewey, John
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