overrepresent
/ˈoʊvɚɹˌɛpɹəzˈɛnt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
5
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Ms. LeCrone was the only woman, probably overrepresenting the general percentage of female ballet choreographers, but perhaps the most experienced of the group."
- "“The Senate is so tough for Democrats because the Senate so overrepresents these sparsely populated rural states,” says Alan Abramowitz, an Emory University political scientist who has extensively studied the relationship between presidential and congressional voting."
- "Asian Americans are overrepresented in both elite universities like Harvard and also in community colleges."
- "Those with more formal education are more likely to take polls, and with an electorate newly divided by education in the Trump era, those polls that didn’t adjust for it tended to overrepresent those with college degrees who were less likely to back Donald Trump."
- "The stories were naturally occurring short narrative or nonfiction materials that had been edited in order to overrepresent rare words and syntactic constructions without compromising perceived naturalness."
Etymology
From over- + represent.