Example sentences for: underestimation

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

  • So too has the prevailing picture of Japan as a sclerotic economy of tightfisted oversavers and corrupt politicians led to a dramatic underestimation of the crucial role the best Japanese companies still play in the global economy.

  • They attribute all Microsoft's missteps to Gates-bad PR, bad legal strategy, underestimation of the Internet-and infer that Gates must have been bad at everything Ballmer is good at: administration, finding new revenue sources, and avoiding bad investments.

  • Other recent studies suggest that these numbers may be an underestimation and that the human genome appears more complicated [ 4 ] . Understanding the functions of such a large number of genes has been an unprecedented challenge for functional genomics research.

  • In recognition of the seriousness of the problem, over 100 million dollars has been set aside to fund the Canadian Diabetes Strategy - a comprehensive national plan focusing on the prevention of diabetes through health promotion and education [ 1 ] . Targeting diabetes in this way is not surprising as it has been estimated that over 1 million Canadians are known to be afflicted with this condition, with 90% having type 2 diabetes [ 2 ] . Furthermore, it is acknowledged that this is likely an underestimation of the scope of the disease as up to 1 in 2 persons with diabetes do not know they have it [ 3 ] .

  • Brinkmann and Philippe [ 23] argued that SSU rRNAs of bacteria evolve faster than those of archaea, thus resulting in an underestimation of the phylogenetic distances between archaea.


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