Example Sentences

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I’m not saying criminally underrating someone like Yamamoto should be prosecutable, I’m just wondering why anyone would?

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 15, 2026

“I think the industry is underrating and underinvesting given the scale,” Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman told me the other day during our appearance at a Paley Center for Media event in Menlo Park, Calif.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 2, 2025

It is possible that we are now underrating the Sooners, who have won four games by one score?

From Seattle Times • Oct. 6, 2021

It was severe tribalism as a counter to an aversion to Bryant outside of Los Angeles, a reaction to those constantly underrating Bryant’s exceptional skill — at least in their eyes.

From New York Times • Jan. 29, 2020

Neither he nor the Americans could have any object in underrating or overrating him.

From Discussion on American Slavery by Breckinridge, Rev. Robert J.