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overestimation

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Recent Examples of overestimation This was later updated to reflect a 598,000 overestimation in previous data. — Hugh Cameron, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Aug. 2025 Concerns are raised regarding Tesla's historical negative free cash flow and analysts' consistent overestimation of its future performance. — Hersh Shefrin, Forbes.com, 15 June 2026 All four actors failed to achieve Actor Award recognition this year, signaling a possible overestimation of enthusiasm for this international Oscar contender. — Jack Smart, PEOPLE, 7 Jan. 2026 The study found that the incorrect, older models led to a significant bias in criticality calculations, causing an artificial overestimation of the reactor’s effective neutron multiplication factor (keff). — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 1 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for overestimation

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That's a significant underestimation of their missing investment.

— Dave Etling, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
That’s probably an underestimation.

— Jim Edwards, Fortune, 24 June 2026

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Kai Poma plans to conduct cultural and archaeological resource studies and environmental surveys and then prepare a resource management plan for the property, according to planning documents.

— Alex Wigglesworth Los Angeles Times, Arkansas Online, 5 July 2026
Kyle de Bruin, managing director at workplace research firm Leesman, said his firm’s surveys of roughly 100 to 130 large companies back this data up.

— Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 5 July 2026

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