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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
underrate .
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Examples
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The teachers unions protest that they've been unfairly maligned, the victim of a hit campaign that vastly overstated the quality of the solutions proposed by the Michelle Rhees of the world and vastly underrates how much teachers unions have done to professionalize teaching.
Where the teachers unions go, the union movement will follow 2011
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I think this is largely right, but I agree with Ezra Klein that it vastly underrates the structural issues at work: Governors have to make their state work.
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His critics counter that he underrates the power of networks and technology.
Adam Elkus: Beyond Twitter Revolutions and False Choices Adam Elkus 2010
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Still, I think this underrates her achievements as HLSdean.
The Volokh Conspiracy » A Great Law School Dean Doesn’t Have to be a Great Scholar 2010
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Rosamund Bartlett, Tolstoy's latest biographer, admires his achievements as a novelist, but she underrates them.
The Searcher Gary Saul Morson 2011
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The capitalist ethos underrates the economic value and social utility of domestic labor in family life, particularly during the early years of childhood; the prevailing expectations of gender feminists place too high a value on the social and psychological satisfactions of work; and the typical package of family-friendly benefits delivered by the state creates incentives that essentially reinforce the devaluations of motherhood prompted by the capitalist ethos and feminist expectations.
I Choose My Choice! 2008
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Cashill underrates the literary quality of other things Obama has written.
Did Bill Ayers Ghostwrite Obama’s Memoir? Or Vice-Versa? 2008
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Cashill underrates the literary quality of other things Obama has written.
Did Bill Ayers Ghostwrite Obama’s Memoir? Or Vice-Versa? 2008
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This, I feel, underrates the seductive appeal of the habitual charmer.
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This, I feel, underrates the seductive appeal of the habitual charmer.
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