understatement

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Grace and Faith must work together, using their namesake virtues to outsmart the scoundrels and stay alive, and to say it’s far less effective than it was seven years ago is an understatement.

From Salon • Mar. 29, 2026

Prodigious is an understatement for the display, which was curated by the museum’s Massimiliano Gioni, Gary Carrion-Murayari, Vivian Crockett and Madeline Weisburg with Calvin Wang.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 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

To say I was confused is an understatement.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey