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- noun Excessive
interpretation
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Diligent reviewers and careful editors can identify mistakes, provide balance, and restrain overinterpretation.
Archive 2004-12-01 2004
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Diligent reviewers and careful editors can identify mistakes, provide balance, and restrain overinterpretation.
Medpundit 2004
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Is overinterpretation like what Alberto Gonzalez did to torture or was he suggesting those against torture were overinterpreting?
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I've had enough of overinterpretation this campaign, from the press mostly, but from everybody else, too.
Obama Campaign Installs Hillary Communications Staffer In Key Ohio Post 2009
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Jon: While I instinctively want to take the side of X over Ehrenreich for any random X, more salient is the possibility that Wolfers is neither right-wing nor left-wing but simply responsible for what has been called βthe most widely-discussed statistical overinterpretation in history.β
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As I said, with such a nonsensical overinterpretation of the law you could put every legislator in the country in jail.
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If, next Tuesday, for only the fourth time in this century, an elected incumbent is chucked out of the White House, there is sure to be a surfeit of overheated overinterpretation.
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I think the highlighted statement is maybe an overinterpretation.
"The biggest question is how far can Democrats go in opposing this president?" Ann Althouse 2007
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FLEISCHER: Well, first of all, I think that's an overinterpretation.
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But when we follow the trail of contemporary science we discover a surprising number of gaps, assumptions, inconsistencies, poor methodologies and leaps of faith. "psychology and neuroscience, Fine concludes that" the sheer complexity of the brain lends itself beautifully to overinterpretation and precipitous conclusions.
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