overstatement
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An overstatement in net job growth stemming from birth-death model estimates was cited as a driver of large revisions to reported payrolls in recent years.
From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026
It’s a bit of an overstatement to say “the Pope came out as anti-A.I.” with last week’s encyclical—after all, Anthropic’s cofounder was there for the release.
From Slate • Jun. 5, 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
The criminologist James Alan Fox explained that his warning of a “bloodbath” was in fact an intentional overstatement.
From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt
Vocabulary lists containing overstatement
STAAR English II: Literary Devices and Figures of Speech
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