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“It is hard to overstate how significant last night’s earnings were,” O’Regan wrote in his note to clients.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 25, 2026

“You just cannot overstate what it means to us to be able to capture all that viewing that’s happening at fan fests, in bars and at smaller watch parties.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026

It is hard to overstate the country’s dominance in this arena.

From Salon ● May 31, 2026

However some experts have also called on health authorities not to overstate what is known about hantavirus while trying to tamp down pandemic fears.

From Barron's ● May 13, 2026

In fact, by terming it a 'problem', I perhaps overstate the matter.

From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro

But the paper overstates the risk of disruption, Benchmark’s Christopher Kuhn writes in a note.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 13, 2026

Nancy Vanden Houten, lead economist at Oxford Economics, said the report "overstates" the emerging strength of the labour market, noting that the bulk of the job gains were concentrated in just a few sectors.

From BBC ● Feb. 11, 2026

Miran believes inflation data overstates underlying price pressures, reflecting outdated measures rather than current economic conditions.

From Barron's ● Dec. 15, 2025

Even this low number overstates the risk, since the S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats Index historically has outperformed a portfolio containing all high-yielding stocks.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 13, 2025

It also overstates the importance of rare geniuses, such as Watt and Edison.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

The team also included delisted stocks to avoid a common issue in backtesting known as survivorship bias, where performance is overstated by including only stocks that are currently active.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026

Hearn believes White's comments stemmed from Alalshikh asking him to explore the financial viability of staging the fight in Las Vegas, and that the UFC president then overstated his role in the event.

From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2026

The importance of habeas corpus at this moment cannot be overstated.

From Slate ● Jun. 18, 2026

A new peer reviewed analysis published in Global Ecology and Conservation argues that a high profile 2025 study significantly overstated the ecological impact of wolf recovery in Yellowstone National Park.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 14, 2026

The heroic status of Aldus Manutius the Elder among historians of the printed word cannot be overstated.

From "Eats, Shoots & Leaves" by Author

One of the demonstrators accused her online of overstating the company’s work with the Pentagon.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026

At the same time, she cautioned against overstating the gender differences.

From MarketWatch ● May 21, 2026

In March 2024, Hui was fined $6.5m and banned from China's capital market for life for his company overstating its revenue by $78bn.

From BBC ● Apr. 14, 2026

“These allegations are false and come on the eve of an election against the front-runner for governor,” he said in a statement, overstating somewhat his status in the neck-and-neck gubernatorial race.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2026

Whatever the case, it’s probably the only thing he could have possibly said that would have made our parents momentarily...happy might be overstating it.

From "Every Day" by David Levithan