exaggeration
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It’s no exaggeration to say 2025 was a blowout year for quantum stocks.
From Barron's • Apr. 27, 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
But it is not an exaggeration to say Newcastle have simply not been used to life without Guimaraes.
From BBC • Jan. 25, 2026
Steven Rosenbush: I agree there’s a lot of exaggeration, but actual specific companies that we’ve reported on like Walmart and Bank of New York are using agents.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 29, 2025
And although it is hazardous to assume any of this had formative effects on his character, it is equally an exaggeration to say that Eratosthenes grew up breathing an atmosphere of pure royalist docility.
From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro
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Theodore Roosevelt on "The Man with the Muck Rake" (1906)
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