understatement

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Harry's mother, Sarah Carter, told the court: "Anything I write will be an understatement of the depth of pain."

From BBC • Mar. 13, 2026

To call CF an under-the-radar company may be an understatement.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 11, 2026

Millersburg will be a hotbed of drama—and not all of it on the stage, where Richard will direct his mother’s funeral with the understatement of Cecil B. DeMille.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

“To say this chronology represents, at a minimum, a concerning breach of the spirit of the dismissal order is an understatement, if not an outright violation of it,” Cannon wrote.

From Slate • Feb. 26, 2026

Brain-numbing shock, the kind that reduced my train of thought to an inching crawl, was an understatement.

From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken