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- verb To
esteem too highly; to give greater praise than due.
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Examples
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I believe that economists tend to over-rate the value of peak-load pricing systems, because they fail to take into account mental transactions costs.
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Those ready-made imports are an uncomfortable reminder of how crap our own British football talent really is, and how much we over-rate them.
Why dusty old home internationals should remain in the memory | David Lacey 2011
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Economists will learn how to appreciate the indispensability of emotion in many settings, including our need to feel in control and to over-rate ourselves.
Tyler Cowen Practices Reverse Psychiatry, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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I think people tend to over-rate how much of this they need.
FB-ees 2009
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I believe that economists tend to over-rate the value of peak-load pricing systems, because they fail to...
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Only the over-rate and the frequent overstepping of the front line would have creased Ricky Ponting's brow.
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A review of research on successful people indicates that they tend to over-rate their own performance (relative to their peers) and that they tend to resist feedback that is inconsistent with their self-image.
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By which I mean not allowing securitization of already securitized assets, full reform of the ratings agencies so they have no incentive to over-rate securities, not allowing collateralized assets to have higher ratings than the underlying securities, and not allowing financial innovation which is not approved by regulators?
Ian Welsh: What to Watch For In the Administration's Financial Sector Reforms 2009
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So far, he makes economics seem much more melodramatic than it really is, particularly the annual convention of the American Economics Association, the importance of which he seems to over-rate, in my view.
Reading List, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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One common fallacy of new troops, is greatly over-rate the enemy; look upon them as 20-foot-tall, invincible giants.
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