"wildly" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- They tend to err on the side of optimism, wildly overestimating how long their patients will live and suggesting that wishful human thinking can easily morph those rigorous survival curves.
- Customized investment contracts known as derivatives have caused unexpectedly large losses at some funds, whose managers wildly overestimated their ability to sell those securities quickly.
- But state officials dismiss that as unrealistic, saying that the shift is not that simple and that the Legislature is wildly overestimating the savings from the closings.
- Likewise, environmentalists were right to warn about population pressures, but they overestimated wildly.
- I think his method of translating 19th-century monetary sums into modern dollars sometimes wildly overestimates the current value.
- The Department of Health wildly overestimated that the cold weather could cause up to 40,000 excess deaths in the UK if it continued much longer.
- And because they hate to be embarrassed that way, the agencies routinely overcompensate by wildly overestimating an enemy's capabilities, like the Soviet Union's military and economic strength during the cold war.
- We may have wildly overestimated the abundance of extraterrestrial civilizations.
- But those in this tradition wildly overestimated the friendliness towards revelation that human reason would feel, once freed from the shackles of a state compulsion to believe.
- The group's National Intelligence Estimate about Iraqi weapons has now been widely discredited for wildly overestimating the country's capabilities.
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