exaggeration
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"The car was still on and they sat in front of a rolling car, that's not an exaggeration."
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026
The available data says the organizational response is at best a huge exaggeration of the rank and file’s view.
From Slate ● Sep. 16, 2026
It can’t be an exaggeration to say that tens of millions are grieving her death.
From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026
The building, as he observes with only a little exaggeration, “houses not just the government but the American psyche.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
What he thought was a hyperbolic exaggeration would come true all too soon.
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
Owens’ story is backed by innuendo, exaggerations, outright falsehoods, and, in several instances, messages delivered through Owens’ own dreams.
From Slate ● Feb. 27, 2026
Such exaggerations of scale—both up and down, but mostly up—are a key dynamic in the V&R vision.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2025
“This civil lawsuit based upon 30-plus-year-old allegations is filled with scurrilous lies, exaggerations and misrepresentations regarding Linda McMahon,” she said.
From Salon ● Nov. 22, 2024
But the firm rejected reports about the extent of the damage caused by the unnamed individual, saying they "contain some exaggerations and inaccuracies".
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2024
To be sure, some researchers have vigorously attacked the new findings as wild exaggerations.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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Theodore Roosevelt on "The Man with the Muck Rake" (1906)
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