as in to overestimate
to place too high a value on
I think the critics seriously overrated that movie
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Recent Examples of overrate
That being said, what might be overrated for one person might just be exactly what someone else needs to make their cooking routine smoother or add something new to their repertoire.
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Katie Rosenhouse, Southern Living, 23 Dec. 2024
Notre Dame and Texas might be great, or they might be overrated.
—Blake Toppmeyer, The Tennessean, 5 Dec. 2024
The market is overrating the competition for targets.
—Michael Salfino, The Athletic, 23 July 2024
Isolation defense is often overrated in the grand scheme of things, but there is still a great deal of value in being able to clip the wings of the best offensive players at your position.
—Mat Issa, Forbes, 22 Nov. 2024
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Katie Rosenhouse, Southern Living, 23 Dec. 2024
Notre Dame and Texas might be great, or they might be overrated.
—Blake Toppmeyer, The Tennessean, 5 Dec. 2024
The market is overrating the competition for targets.
—Michael Salfino, The Athletic, 23 July 2024
Isolation defense is often overrated in the grand scheme of things, but there is still a great deal of value in being able to clip the wings of the best offensive players at your position.
—Mat Issa, Forbes, 22 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for overrate
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While nuclear war is terrifying, these Americans overestimate Russia’s willingness to use nuclear weapons.—
Colin Pascal,
Baltimore Sun,
23 Jan. 2025
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Salespeople may overestimate their ability to handle every aspect of the sales process, driven by confidence or fear of losing control.—
David Mattson,
Forbes,
22 Jan. 2025
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At these shows, viewers largely cut off from nature’s magic were prompted to marvel at its beauty and appreciate its life-sustaining work.—
Emily Watlington,
ARTnews.com,
4 Feb. 2025
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This included bobblehead characters with micro-expressions along with fungi-like environments and quirky creatures for the hallucinatory realm that the late David Lynch might’ve appreciated.—
Bill Desowitz,
IndieWire,
3 Feb. 2025
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He’s never highly valued the head coach position, once saying that 500 coaches could have had Jimmy Johnson’s success.—
Saad Yousuf,
The Athletic,
25 Jan. 2025
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Moving away from racialized politics and toward the commonsense center should be valued by Americans of all political persuasions.—
Wenyuan Wu,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
24 Jan. 2025
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With that in mind, our view is that investors will always be better served by studying the underlying fundamentals of companies to determine if a business is being undervalued, fairly valued, or overvalued, in the stock market — and then, acting accordingly.—
Zev Fima,
CNBC,
11 Jan. 2025
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Management and Tocchet has overvalued big D as a whole and under valued the need to actually pass the puck, large D or not.—
Thomas Drance,
The Athletic,
21 Jan. 2025
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Far from enabling the U.S. to annex Canada, the McKinley Tariff that Trump so admires drove the U.S.’s neighbor to the North into the arms of its main economic rival, the British.—
Marc-William Palen / Made by History,
TIME,
6 Feb. 2025
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The 43-year-old, a fashion trendsetter in the U.K., is admired for her elegant style.—
Stephanie Nolasco,
Fox News,
5 Feb. 2025
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“Overrate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overrate. Accessed 9 Feb. 2025.
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