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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
overemphasize .
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Examples
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Mr. Corbeil's lawyer, Michel Grenier, will argue that Judge Coupal "overemphasized" the exemplary nature of the sentence in an effort to persuade others in the political world to learn from Mr. Corbeil's mistakes.
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Mr. Corbeil's lawyer, Michel Grenier, will argue that Judge Coupal "overemphasized" the exemplary nature of the sentence in an effort to persuade others in the political world to learn from Mr. Corbeil's mistakes.
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Three decades later, in “Reverse Racism, or How the Pot Got to Call the Kettle Black” (November 1993), Stanley Fish argued forcefully against this concern that the plight of blacks might be overemphasized at the expense of whites.
White America Reacts 2009
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Few are one-note—no nutmeg soup here—but their pumpkin-pie potpourri can be even more intense than a single, overemphasized spice.
Gourd Lovin' William Bostwick 2011
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Specifically, neocon ideas “were used to justify an American foreign policy that overemphasized the use of force and led logically to the Iraq war.”
Zero-Sum Future Gideon Rachman 2011
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If there's a blind spot here, however, it is in the areas of media and technology, which are overemphasized by both new and old media.
Ari Melber: Malcolm Gladwell Surfaces to Knock Social Media in Egypt Ari Melber 2011
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When the opponent is doing nothing but attacking you with overemphasized false claims, your defensiveness gives the impression that you under-emphasize them.
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If there's a blind spot here, however, it is in the areas of media and technology, which are overemphasized by both new and old media.
Ari Melber: Malcolm Gladwell Surfaces to Knock Social Media in Egypt Ari Melber 2011
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I think a lot of people would read "neutral zone" and think of something like a * safe* zone -- a place where race and gender is acknowledged (or not), but isn't overemphasized or used against anyone.
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If there's a blind spot here, however, it is in the areas of media and technology, which are overemphasized by both new and old media.
Ari Melber: Malcolm Gladwell Surfaces to Knock Social Media in Egypt Ari Melber 2011
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