Word: overweigh
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...longer they played - and the more confident they got - the likelier they were to get blown out on one or a few very big hands. Win a dozen $50 pots and you're still going to wind up far behind if you lose a single $1,000 one. "People overweigh their frequent small gains vis-à-vis occasional large losses," Siler says...
...Abner's simple satire is often lost in this maze, and the frequent barbed references--to Ike, parity, Stevenson, Presley, toothpaste, Kim Novak, Wall St. and war--often overweigh the two long acts...
...even so great an institution as Harvard against what seems to be a palpable national need and national duty, is in itself an attitude lacking a certain quality of courage and boldness. But to let this private administrative policy and the arguments which may be marshalled to its support, overweigh that clear need, is to distort principle in all cases as well as to distort judgement in this...
...vaudeville team, courtly, Ochs feeding gag-lines to impish Wiley; they would have made a handy pair of tumblers, big Ochs tossing tiny Wiley through a hoop. If the latter event had ever taken place, Wiley would have landed on his head, a part of him which seems to overweigh, though not to overbalance, his short, active frame. Seen by himself, he looks quite in proportion; seen against a background of other figures he suggests those pictures that cartoonists like to manufacture-a grave, photographed face, under which have been drawn a midget body, arms, and legs. Power often lives...
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