Such studies may yield exaggerated estimates of total soil loss.
Had they received exaggerated estimates of our minuscule capacity?
Conner claimed to have killed 35 Arapaho warriors, a probably exaggerated estimate, at a cost to himself of 5 dead.
The Pentagon used exaggerated estimates of Soviet military spending to help get enormous budget increases.
But is even its exaggerated estimate - 7,300 appeals for about 200,000 patients - an excessive figure?
Captain Powell estimated that his men killed 60 Indians, a "wildly exaggerated" estimate in the opinion of some historians.
The building looked big enough to cover half an acre, though Steve soon chopped down that exaggerated estimate.
Under the conditions," the spokesman said trying to maintain a credible visage to front for his lies, "I also have heard some wildly exaggerated estimates.
History teaches us that many innovations have led to wildly exaggerated estimates of their future impact.
An imbecile would have known that, and I was not, by the most exaggerated estimate, an imbecile.