Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive & intransitive verb To place too much emphasis on or employ too much emphasis.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb to emphasize excessively; to place excessive emphasis on.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To place too much
emphasis on; tooverstate the importance of.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb place special or excessive emphasis on
Etymologies
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Examples
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But to overemphasize this gap between religious and nonreligious American women in their attitudes toward gender would be to overlook the sweeping transformation in gender norms shared by religious and nonreligious Americans, men and women alike, over the last generation.
American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010
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They've been much slower to change undesirable features of union contracts, such as policies that overemphasize seniority and protect poorly performing workers.
The Wisconsin union fight isn't about benefits. It's about labor's influence. 2011
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I don't want to overemphasize this, but one problem is simply that patients expect health care to be free to them.
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However, I would agree that his tendency to sometimes overemphasize sexuality within TOB (as presented by his critics) obscures the proper emphasis of communion with God as the fundamental element of human existence.
David L. Schindler criticizes Christopher West's work with TOTB 2009
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I don't want to overemphasize this, but one problem is simply that patients expect health care to be free to them.
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They've been much slower to change undesirable features of union contracts, such as policies that overemphasize seniority and protect poorly performing workers.
The Wisconsin union fight isn't about benefits. It's about labor's influence. 2011
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It's important not to overemphasize it because we don't know where it's going to lead, Hellman says.
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Imagination teaches children to value the contributions of the individual in a world theirs that tends to overemphasize conformity, winning and "fitting in."
Michele Somerville: It Takes a (Christmas) Village to Raise a Child With Autism Michele Somerville 2011
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It's important not to overemphasize it because we don't know where it's going to lead, Hellman says.
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However, all these analyses overemphasize the details of how things went wrong and miss the importance of the context.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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