Overrepresents

Word OVERREPRESENTS
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Definitions and meanings of "Overrepresents"

What do we mean by overrepresents?

To represent as being higher or greater than it is.

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The word "overrepresents" in example sentences

The US Senate famously overrepresents certain rural areas* but some level of this form of malapportionment is a common feature of electoral systems. ❋ Unknown (2010)

One thing that doesn't help is that the federal government, with the Electoral College and the Senate, overrepresents rural interests at the expense of cities. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Even given the fact that Pennsylvania is an "old" state, I think that overrepresents that demographic. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The system overrepresents the indigenous community and small municipalities. ❋ Shelley Rigger (2008)

It is an unpleasant reality that the Senate, being a basically undemocratic institution, overrepresents conservatives. ❋ Unknown (2006)

That isn't true of the U.S. S.nate, which overrepresents the small number of people in sparsely populated states, and it most especially isn't true of the S.nate finance committee, whose consideration of the health reform bill dominated news coverage these last couple of months. ❋ Unknown (2009)

* I hesitate to just flat-out say it “overrepresents rural areas” because some of the places it overrepresents (Rhode Island, for example) aren’t rural and many people live in rural areas (upstate New York, downstate Illinois) that are underrepresented in the Senate. ❋ Unknown (2010)

My point in the initial post wasn’t that we should end subsidies to rural America, but that urban living has certain economic benefits that our political system, which heavily overrepresents rural voters, is not set up to maximize. ❋ Unknown (2011)

It’s supposed to be “Alexa is crap INSIDE the US because it overrepresents Asia and Europe.” reply ❋ Duncan Riley (2005)

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