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“We’re seeing an underreaction, continually,” said Dr. Stanley Weiss, a Rutgers University epidemiology professor.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 20, 2021

Nugent drew a line between the lack of preparedness for the gyrocopter stunt and the underreaction to calls on social media to swarm Congress.

From Washington Post • Jan. 12, 2021

That, in turn, was a product of the Fed's overreaction to economic and financial-market overheating in 2000 and underreaction to the subsequent downturn.

From Economist • Feb. 8, 2013

Stylization has given way to a sort of desultory, sarcastic naturalism, in which the joke lies not in Carreyesque abstraction and amplification but in a kind of muttered, balloon-popping underreaction to preposterous events.

From New York Times • Feb. 25, 2011

"It's a lot easier to correct the errors of overreaction than the errors of underreaction," Summers said in a speech to a securities-industry group in October.

From Time Magazine Archive