exaggeration

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Epidemiologist Abby Lippman dubbed such exaggeration of what genes do “geneticization,” and Ball calls geneticization a “hair’s breadth away from eugenics.”

From Slate • Mar. 19, 2026

Seyfried’s performance is, no exaggeration, one of the finest and most mesmerizing turns any actor has given across the thriller genre.

From Salon • Jan. 31, 2026

“We cannot give everyone a trial, because to do so would take, without exaggeration, 200 years,” he added.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 29, 2025

In an interview, owner Jian Gong said that number was an exaggeration and that she had actually helped pick up closer to 10 babies born through surrogacy in the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 28, 2025

Maybe everything we'd been told was an exaggeration.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama