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- verb Present participle of
overpredict .
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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.
Law In The Health and Human Services Donald T. Dickson 1995
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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.
The Seattle Times 2011
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"Many of us are overpredicting the impact of convergence in the short term," McHugh argued.
IT Channel News | Latest Information Technology News - Home 2010
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