How to Use overestimation in a Sentence

overestimation

noun
  • This type of false thinking can also lead to an overestimation of market size.
    — Todd Juneau, Forbes, 6 Apr. 2021
  • Third is a massive overestimation on the Russian military - both its will to fight and its ability to fight.
    — CBS News, 18 May 2022
  • The possible overestimation could be due to a change in the direction of the tsunami’s energy.
    — Andrea Klick, Oc Register, 30 July 2025
  • False consensus is the overestimation of how many other people agree with our beliefs and preferences.
    — Esther K. Choy, Forbes.com, 14 June 2026
  • This can lead to misleading overestimation of the effect that a policy can have nationwide.
    — Omar Al-Ubaydli john A. List, WIRED, 22 Dec. 2022
  • Even with some potential model overestimation, confidence is growing that a truly historic heat wave is on tap.
    — Todd Nelson, Star Tribune, 25 June 2021
  • Moreover, the particles led to an overestimation of microplastic abundance in our study.
    — Anne McNeil, The Conversation, 26 Mar. 2026
  • The main thing is, this is a completely obvious overestimation of the potential (the supply of tanks) would add to the armed forces of Ukraine.
    — Tara Copp, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Jan. 2023
  • The survey also found a consistent overestimation of the size of ethnic and racial minority groups.
    — Emily Willingham, Scientific American, 27 Apr. 2022
  • Hunting groups say this is an overestimation of deer numbers, and that the organization has never had a proper management plan.
    — Kris Millgate, Outdoor Life, 6 Feb. 2026
  • That leads to overestimation of progress in extending internet to the entire country, Cooper said.
    — al, 22 May 2021
  • That is probably hubris, the overestimation of one’s own power that was regularly punished in Greek legends.
    — Bill Conerly, Forbes, 15 June 2022
  • Kids tend to have a misperception, an overestimation, to be specific, of how much other college students drink, as well as how much alcohol matters to them.
    — Elissa Strauss, CNN, 6 Apr. 2021
  • The overestimation of Moscow’s military goes back at least to the mid-twentieth century.
    — Zoltan Barany, Foreign Affairs, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Water experts say overuse, drought, and the drying effects of climate change have contributed to shortages, along with overestimations of available water.
    — Sarah Matusek, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Sep. 2023
  • Hearing a voice can definitely make an AI seem more human-like, which might lead to some overestimation of emotions or understanding.
    — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 25 Sep. 2024
  • The overestimation of short-term rental counts highlights how little this issue has to do with housing shortages, while the city already has abundant rules already in place to address noise, security and parking issues.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Dec. 2022
  • The upshot of this free cash flow overestimation is that analysts have been overestimating Tesla’s fundamental value for years.
    — Hersh Shefrin, Forbes.com, 5 Apr. 2025
  • According to the authors of the rebuttal, the dating technique that had been used for the 2018 findings had been flawed, resulting in the possible overestimation of the arts’ age.
    — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 21 June 2023
  • This could lead to an overestimation of emissions savings from EVs and potentially less-strict emissions regulations for gasoline vehicles.
    — John Paul Helveston, Scientific American, 13 Dec. 2023
  • The 18 million acre-feet was likely an overestimation of how much water there was even a century ago, but today’s river provides even less than the total amounts promised to states in 1922.
    — Elise Schmelzer, Denver Post, 19 Apr. 2026
  • Even if that number is a vast overestimation, and the death toll from all nuclear accidents were a vast underestimation, splitting atoms in nuclear power stations is still one of the safest things that humanity does.
    — Big Think, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Givi and Kirk attribute this overestimation of negative outcomes to cognitive bias—more specifically, the tendency to give more weight to our own overthinking than to the actual thoughts of others.
    — Mark Travers, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2024
  • But people should beware an overestimation of politics, and an overestimation of presidential powers.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 28 June 2023
  • Most tech companies have been reluctant to disclose much proprietary information at the most granular, energy-per-query level, which can lead to gross overestimations when multiplied across billions of queries.
    — Tim McDonnell, semafor.com, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Paramedics arrived about 15 minutes later and injected the 23-year-old with what was later discovered to be a lethal dose of ketamine based on an overestimation of McClain’s weight.
    — Molly Bohannon, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2024
  • There may be an overestimation of the number of people with vitamin D deficiency because many labs appear to be using cutpoints that are higher than the evidence indicates are appropriate.
    — Andrew Moseman, Discover Magazine, 1 Dec. 2010
  • This was later updated to reflect a 598,000 overestimation in previous data.
    — Hugh Cameron, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Aug. 2025
  • On the other hand, the increase in underestimation was accompanied by a decrease in overestimation, mostly accounted for by changes in how girls reported experiencing their weight.
    — Haley Weiss, Time, 7 July 2023
  • Citizens routinely hide their true feelings and engage in preference falsification, which can lead to massive overestimation of a dictator’s actual support.
    — Natasha Lindstaedt, Forbes.com, 24 May 2026

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