exaggeration
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Exaggeration by politicians and companies is hardly unexpected.
From BBC • Jun. 15, 2025
Exaggeration has always been a fundamental aspect of film-making.
From The Guardian • May 12, 2015
Exaggeration makes your case easy to dismiss with a single fact.
From Slate • May 20, 2013
Particularly interesting is a dissection of the work of Arundhati Roy, the writer and activist, whom the magazine labels "the Queen of Exaggeration."
From New York Times • Aug. 12, 2012
Exaggeration prevented the backslider from applying the description to himself; and as the way to reformation was neither intelligibly nor mildly pointed out, he was rather irritated than corrected.
From The Life and Writings of Henry Fuseli, Volume I (of 3) by Knowles, John
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Theodore Roosevelt on "The Man with the Muck Rake" (1906)
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