How to Use overemphasize in a Sentence

overemphasize

verb
  • First, a person starts to overemphasize their wins, leading them to gamble more.
    — Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 23 Jan. 2025
  • Be careful not to overemphasize the negative aspects of the event.
    — Dr. Aviva Legatt, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2021
  • Writers, with our big egos and big imaginations, tend to overemphasize the impact of our books.
    — Maris Kreizman june 20, Literary Hub, 20 June 2025
  • There, the production itself also tends to overemphasize the bizarre, and runs away from itself.
    — Vulture, 6 Nov. 2022
  • That Huo doesn’t overemphasize the signifiers of change is an admirable kind of restraint.
    — Ritesh Mehta, IndieWire, 17 Feb. 2025
  • People tend, however, to overemphasize the length or duration of their long runs.
    — Luke Humphrey, Outside Online, 20 Mar. 2019
  • Adaptive mode works fine in quiet settings but tends to overemphasize things like dialogue from a video in testing.
    — Joe Hindy, PCMAG, 18 Sep. 2023
  • Still, experts warn that there is such a thing as overemphasizing the data and getting bogged down by less-than-optimal scores.
    — Alexa Mikhail, Flow Space, 1 Oct. 2025
  • If women ski as long as the men do and don’t do it as quickly, that ratio gets out of whack and overemphasizes skiing for the women and not for the men.
    — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2026
  • The job of a physician is to deal in reality—to neither minimize threats nor overemphasize them.
    — James Hamblin, The Atlantic, 6 Oct. 2020
  • The potential impacts of abusing nitrous oxide cannot be overemphasized.
    — Katia Hetter, CNN Money, 15 May 2026
  • People often overemphasize gifts around the holidays when the real focus should be on family.
    — Annie Lane, oregonlive, 10 Nov. 2022
  • People often overemphasize gifts around the holidays, when the real focus should be on family.
    — Annie Lane, cleveland, 10 Nov. 2022
  • But Harris thinks Zuboff’s book overemphasized the surveillance part and went too easy on the capitalism.
    — Steven Levy, WIRED, 3 Mar. 2023
  • Definitions may overemphasize certain symptoms, harming those who don’t fit.
    — Bymichael Depeau-Wilson | Medpage Today, ABC News, 20 July 2022
  • Drag Race can overemphasize the evolution a queen has gone through between seasons, but Aja has actually had one.
    — Chris Feil, Vulture, 9 May 2025
  • It really can’t be overemphasized how good Erivo and Grande sound together, so forgive me for bringing it up again.
    — Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 21 Nov. 2024
  • Questions at debates and forums have tended to overemphasize who’s giving what to whom over other important matters in this election.
    — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 1 Mar. 2026
  • The film has its surreal and twisted qualities as well as its obvious ones; the script and direction tend to overemphasize their points about misogyny.
    — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 10 Mar. 2024
  • Still, overemphasizing national trend lines fails to acknowledge how new converts can change a community.
    — Luis Parrales, The Atlantic, 31 Mar. 2026
  • There are some who hope that additional attention to the region does not overemphasize the partisan differences.
    — Rebecca Grapevine, The Courier-Journal, 29 July 2024
  • Critics overemphasize the possibility of making more money in the stock market.
    — Michelle Singletary, Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2023
  • With less time to see his skills, the Brewers believe, rival teams may have overemphasized Mitchell’s medical condition.
    — Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2023
  • The old name overemphasized the role of the ovary in this condition and did not describe how PMOS can affect many body systems.
    — Melanie Cree, The Conversation, 29 May 2026
  • The national importance of this prosecution cannot be overemphasized.
    — Nick Akerman, New York Daily News, 6 Feb. 2025
  • To overemphasize straightness and alpha-male stereotypes, though, presents its own risks, especially in a post-MeToo moment.
    — Lindsay Zoladz, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2022
  • The absence of testing as a metric for acceptance in some colleges has also stirred fears about overemphasizing other parts of the application process.
    — Theara Coleman, theweek, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Inherent in their definition is a sense of shared fate—a counter to a version of food consumption that overemphasizes individual choice.
    — Literary Hub, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Well, there's a lot of political rhetoric out there about overemphasizing fraud or overemphasizing voter suppression.
    — CBS News, 1 Sep. 2024
  • The role of gas as a transition fuel for developing countries, especially in Africa, cannot be overemphasized.
    — Yemi Osinbajo, Foreign Affairs, 31 Aug. 2021

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