overstatement
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While golfer Thomas Snow, who is not part of the suit, conceded the course could use a "facelift", he thinks the president's description of the course is a "gross overstatement".
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026
This conception of the court’s role is both self-serving and an ambitious overstatement.
From Slate ● Jul. 20, 2026
“This might be too big of an overstatement, but it feels very human to use the media to try to provide a perspective on history in that way.”
From Salon ● Apr. 12, 2026
That’s an overstatement, as is the later claim that for Pericles “cold logic and science trumped religion.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 2026
“In some sort of crude sense which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish,” he declared, “the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.”
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
Vocabulary lists containing overstatement
STAAR English II: Literary Devices and Figures of Speech
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