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But it's easy to overstate the role of maternal depression.
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It is difficult to overstate the role that 1994 plays in the tormented psyche of the Democratic Party.
Journalists have tended to overstate the role of the street in influencing his designs, especially in the early 90's, when his shows lacked vitality.
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Justice Ginsburg, who remains in the pool, has cautioned against overstating the role of clerks and of pool memos.
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Dr. Christopher Ehret of U.C.L.A., an expert in the history of African languages, said the authors had overstated the role of agriculture in explaining the pattern of language distribution.
The desperate and the displaced of Syria's war should not be cast as climate refugees, observers have told the Guardian, as this overstates the role of global warming in setting off the conflict.
He defers too much to current orthodoxies – the discussion of patriarchy resists the logic of its own arguments for fear of affronting feminists – and reflects current academic fashion by, for example, hugely overstating the role of science in European colonialism.
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