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to overemphasise
verb
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But some of us like to overemphasise our own bravery.
"What we find is people tend to overemphasise one type of role over the others.
It's hard to overemphasise how quickly our Isis escorts managed each time to disappear among the local population.
Sadly, currently, the ratings tend to overemphasise financial indicators (share price) and underemphasise industrial ones (productivity, innovation) and hence often cause more harm than good.
It is hard to overemphasise the galvanising effect of this man and his art, if that is what it is, on the introverted world of the bullfight.
Today's Lib Dems are not the Labour party of the early 1980s, and it is easy to overemphasise the separateness of these factions.
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Sometimes given to overemphasising the qualities of his horses, there could be no hyperbole as he described Duke Of Marmalade as 'an amazing horse'.
Today's society is litigious and sceptical, and if doctors overemphasise side-effects to their patients to avoid being sued, or patients mistrust their doctor's chosen course of action, the nocebo effect can cause a treatment to fail before it has begun.
To do that, governments often overemphasise policies targeted on particular places.
When you interview somebody who has come through a hellish period, or indeed several, it's very tempting to conclude by overemphasising the positive: it's all right now, he's out of the woods.
One explanation for this might be that the concepts of isolation and restraint are much more straightforward, with little room for disagreement, while the perception of forced medication is more likely to vary, being overemphasised by the patient and underemphasised by the clinician.
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