exaggerate

Example Sentences

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Flooding can trigger sewage releases into rivers and estuaries, threatening wildlife with disease and toxic water, "exaggerating the number of wildlife death events".

From BBC

However, four former Drone to Home volunteers claimed to the BBC the charity had been exaggerating how many dogs it reunited with owners.

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She and the crew are enjoying the exaggerated story.

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But some analysts have suggested the immediate threat to jobs has been exaggerated by executives who want to appear ahead of the curve.

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Barnum’s American Museum in New York exhibited objects, creatures, and people, some real, many fake, most wildly exaggerated.

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