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- verb Present participle of
overemphasise .
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Examples
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It may seem that I'm overemphasising the importance of Grendel's Mama's labia-lack.
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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.
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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.
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It may seem that I'm overemphasising the importance of Grendel's Mama's labia-lack.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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