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- verb Present participle of
underreact .
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Examples
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I might be totally underreacting, but I wouldn't worry about it too much.
Tried To Make Her Go To Rehab; She Said No, No, No | Her Bad Mother 2008
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The lesson for public-health authorities struggling with the current spread of swine flu is that "there are dangers of overreacting and underreacting," says Dr. Bresee of the CDC.
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Thus, it is Obama who is continuously underreacting and behaving in an uncertain and ambiguous manner.
Archive 2009-03-01 Dr. Sanity 2009
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"It's the media that has really created the roller coaster in terms of over - and underreacting," he said.
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I might be totally underreacting, but I wouldn't worry about it too much.
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So, right now they seem to flop around, overreacting one time and underreacting the next, to whatever the McCain campaign does.
If there's a VP leak tonight, is it "political malpractice" and "evidence that the McCain campaign is a war room"? Ann Althouse 2008
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The NSA, the U.S. agency responsible for collecting signals intelligence, "zoomed from dangerously underreacting prior to 9/11 to dangerously overreacting."
Signal Failure 2008
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Both sides misread the situation, with the Democrats underreacting, and the GOP overplaying its hand.
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MADELEINE ALBRIGHT, FORMER SECRETARY OF STATE: We were mostly accused of overreacting, not underreacting.
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MADELEINE ALBRIGHT, FORMER SECRETARY OF STATE: We were mostly accused of overreacting, not underreacting.
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