Example sentences for: underestimate

How can you use “underestimate” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Thus, the estimates of avoided incidences of premature mortality based on this C-R function may underestimate the true effect.

  • The road to 9/11 again illustrates how the large, unwieldy U.S. government tended to underestimate a threat that grew ever greater.

  • In fact, if there's one thing that is unequivocally true about M&A activity, it's that companies dramatically underestimate how much it will cost and how long it will take to make two companies--with their attendant managerial hierarchies, corporate cultures, and computer systems--into one.

  • Thus, while the assumption of 5 years of life lost may be appropriate for a subset of total avoided premature mortalities, it may over or underestimate the degree of life shortening attributable to PM for the remaining deaths."

  • The official death toll of 1,600 was a wild underestimate.


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