Example sentences for: underestimating

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

  • He admits to mistakes such as failing to keep his mouth shut at several points, mismanaging the House Republicans, and underestimating his opponents.

  • Clinicians have overestimated the downsides, while seriously underestimating the benefits, of condition-specific online patient support communities.

  • The campaign's complaint extends to unequal treatment--a nine-part series on Clinton's record, which the official describes as "the softest portrait since they invented black velvet"--and the Times perpetually underestimating the size of Dole crowds.

  • They tested their theory by using analytical methods to show that, first, ignoring the incubation period or, second, assuming exponentially distributed incubation and infectious periods (when including the incubation period) always resulted in underestimating the basic reproductive ratio of an infection from outbreak data.

  • For the 12 individual scenarios, the proportion of physicians underestimating risk ranged from 0 to 29%.


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