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- verb transitive To
represent as being higher or greater than it is.
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Examples
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Your statement, “What the Senate does is arbitrarily overrepresent certain places” is almost there but not quite.
Matthew Yglesias » Malapportionment Is Destroying the Planet 2010
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What the Senate does is arbitrarily overrepresent certain places, and most of those places are rural.
Matthew Yglesias » Malapportionment Is Destroying the Planet 2010
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If an area is drawn to overrepresent conservative voters, then that area will always elect conservatives.
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What the Senate does is arbitrarily overrepresent certain places, and most of those places are rural.
Matthew Yglesias » Malapportionment Is Destroying the Planet 2010
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It's fair to say most of these polls overrepresent democrats so the situation leading up to the 2010 elections is likely worse for democrats than the poll indicates.
CNN poll: GOP has erased party popularity gap in Congress 2009
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They particularly are underrepresented of the young voters 18-35, who typically have not voted and are Obama's 'base' and they also underrepresent the minority vote of Latinos and blacks as well as they overrepresent the white 'majority votes'
Biden Uncorks Tough Populist Hit On McCain Over "Fundamentals" Line 2009
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A 5% donation rate may actually overrepresent the number of nonprofits with 50% minority boards and staffs.
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Forty-three percent of whites said Obama has sufficient experience to serve effectively as president, and about two in 10 worry he would overrepresent the interests of African Americans.
Sunday Reading 2008
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But a cautionary note was struck on Fox News: exit polls have always tended to overrepresent the Democrats, and the night is still young.
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But a cautionary note was struck on Fox News: exit polls have always tended to overrepresent the Democrats, and the night is still young.
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