exaggeration

Example Sentences

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Kristina Kausch, a researcher at the German Marshall Fund, said it would be an exaggeration to speak of the end of the alliance.

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

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

In “Anomalisa,” Noonan was credited with playing “Everyone Else” — and that wasn’t an exaggeration.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 18, 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

This title is rather an exaggeration: the resultant theories are not all that grand, nor are they fully unified, as they do not include gravity.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking