overestimate by
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used to specify the amount or margin of overestimation
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Examples (10)
- We overestimated the cost by about 2%.
- The company overestimated its profits by nearly ten million dollars.
- Analysts believe the property was overestimated by at least 15%.
- The travel time was overestimated by twenty minutes due to the light traffic.
- They overestimated the number of guests by fifty people.
- The budget was overestimated by a significant margin last year.
- It appears we overestimated the attendance by a few hundred.
- The weight of the cargo was overestimated by several tons.
- Scientists realized they had overestimated the speed of the reaction by a factor of two.
- Experts warned that the project's impact might be overestimated by a wide margin.