Example sentences for: underestimation

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

  • Fourth, although the bombing heightened awareness of a new terrorist danger, successful prosecutions contributed to widespread underestimation of the threat.

  • The Los Angeles Times lead exposes the government's gross underestimation of the flow of cocaine out of Colombia and other drug-producing countries.

  • 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.

  • Both smoking and RA can independently increase the risk for mortality; the potential patients who are also continuing smokers are more likely to have died than are smokers in the general population, thus never entering the study [ 31 ] . This differential mortality could have resulted in an underestimation of the association between current smoking and RA.

  • The SAPS II curve shows an underestimation of mortality in low-risk patients and an overestimation of mortality in high-risk patients, leading to the skewed appearance of its calibration curve.


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