understatement
Example Sentences
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Segal recalled that she could not tell whether the prince was vastly uninformed or simply demonstrating British understatement.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 18, 2026
Updating fans in a personal message, the former Smiths frontman said: "It will take me one year to recover. And that is an understatement."
From BBC • Mar. 13, 2026
To call CF an under-the-radar company may be an understatement.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 11, 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
That turned out to be an understatement of considerable magnitude.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
Vocabulary lists containing understatement
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