understatement

Example Sentences

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In a typical understatement, he added: “And the ultimate result was apparently accepted by everybody, because people still play them, and they like them. For which, of course, I’m very pleased.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 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 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

According to the Constitution and the values that fueled the American Revolution, this is an understatement.

From Salon • Feb. 20, 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