as in to underestimate
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Deterrence can’t work if your adversary underestimates your ability or willingness to act.—
Edward Fishman,
The Atlantic,
24 Feb. 2025 -
Success can breed overconfidence, leading leaders to underestimate emerging threats.—
Julian Hayes II,
Forbes,
23 Feb. 2025
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Here’s an example: Stock price: $10 Earning per share: $2 Price-to-earnings ratio: 5 The P/E ratio is valuable for assessing whether a stock is undervalued or overvalued.—
Vinamrata Chaturvedi,
Quartz,
13 Feb. 2025
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Nissan’s leadership felt the proposal undervalued the company.—
River Akira Davis,
New York Times,
13 Feb. 2025
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Rowan is not at all concerned that her cousins are going to be wearing her skin like a mask next because Rowan has wildly overestimated her own instincts.—
Kathleen Walsh,
Vulture,
16 Feb. 2025
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On the contrary, the movie fatally overestimates the appeal of its monsters and their habitat, and the fun comes to a screeching halt when our characters plunge into the Gorge itself and begin to learn the truth about what their governments have been trying to hide.—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
13 Feb. 2025
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If anything, his radio play-by-play, was underrated.—
Bob Raissman,
New York Daily News,
18 Jan. 2025
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And don't underrate how perfectly this first film captures something about Spider-Man's central tragedy.—
Darren Franich,
EW.com,
7 Jan. 2025
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“Misesteem.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/misesteem. Accessed 1 Mar. 2025.
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