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- verb Present participle of
overpredict .
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Examples
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A layman with access to relevant statistics can do at least as well and possibly better; psychiatric training is not relevant to the factors that validly can be employed to make such predictions, and psychiatrists consistently err on the side of overpredicting violence.
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A Northwest Voices letter "Baseline diet," Opinion, Aug. 3 tried to diminish the debt-ceiling agreement by suggesting that one could show a statistical weight loss by overpredicting weight gain and taking credit for any weight that falls short of the prediction.
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"Many of us are overpredicting the impact of convergence in the short term," McHugh argued.
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