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overemphasising

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  • verb Present participle of overemphasise.

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Examples

  • It may seem that I'm overemphasising the importance of Grendel's Mama's labia-lack.

    Archive 2007-11-01 Hal Duncan 2007

  • As I have pointed out in earlier blogs, I don't really buy the stuff about 'excessive' focus on shareholder value and how b-schools have gone wrong in overemphasising this aspect of capitalism.

    The fundamental human need for stability Tusar N Mohapatra 2009

  • As I have pointed out in earlier blogs, I don't really buy the stuff about 'excessive' focus on shareholder value and how b-schools have gone wrong in overemphasising this aspect of capitalism.

    Archive 2009-03-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2009

  • It may seem that I'm overemphasising the importance of Grendel's Mama's labia-lack.

    I Am Beowulf! You're Going Daaaaahn! Hal Duncan 2007

  • I would stress at this point, however, that having identified three quite distinct techniques for dealing with the estranging effect of the counterfactual/hypothetical -- to explicate it, to excuse it, to exploit it -- we need to recognise that what we label SF involves such a variety of combinatorial approaches to these techniques that overemphasising one will only lead us to unfairly neglect the use of the others.

    Strange Fiction 7 Hal Duncan 2006

  • I would stress at this point, however, that having identified three quite distinct techniques for dealing with the estranging effect of the counterfactual/hypothetical -- to explicate it, to excuse it, to exploit it -- we need to recognise that what we label SF involves such a variety of combinatorial approaches to these techniques that overemphasising one will only lead us to unfairly neglect the use of the others.

    Archive 2006-07-01 Hal Duncan 2006

  • We should however be cautious about overemphasising the need to expedite the process of wiping out backlogs at the expense of paying sufficient attention to building capacity for the long term.

    ANC Today 2007

  • We should however be cautious about overemphasising the need to expedite the process of wiping out backlogs at the expense of paying sufficient attention to building capacity for the long term.

    ANC Today 2004

  • He accused President Thabo Mbeki and the ANC of putting former president Nelson Mandela's heritage of racial reconciliation - and his spirit of inclusive generosity - at risk by overemphasising race.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2000

  • To steer a steady course which shall avoid neglecting what is dangerous if neglected, and overemphasising what is dangerous if over-emphasised, calls for a great deal of wisdom on the part both of the mother and her doctor.

    The Nervous Child Hector Charles Cameron

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