exaggerate

"But its expanding uses also reveal how people are responding to that impulse. Some embrace it. Some exaggerate it for laughs. Others subvert it entirely to describe stepping back from the relentless pursuit of more."

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026

That said, I don’t want to exaggerate what’s happened to me so far.

From Salon ● Oct. 16, 2026

These two categories often gyrate up and down and exaggerate changes in GDP.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026

“Some even exaggerate corruption details and fabricate scandals to attract traffic,” the magazine said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

“No, sir. Ah, I would say, sir, judging from what 1 heard, that General Hill thinks that, ah, Pettigrew is not a professional and tends to be overexcited and perhaps to exaggerate a bit.”

From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara

One factor reinforcing Block’s motivation for shorting credit is his opinion that there is too much passive investing in the market that automatically exaggerates moves when they come.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 1, 2026

The Donroe doctrine also exaggerates the importance of natural resources.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 5, 2026

Tech’s dominance in the S&P 500, with the top 10 stocks comprising 40% of market value, exaggerates the current pullback.

From Barron's ● Nov. 5, 2025

The advertising and promotional material “often distorts, exaggerates, and manipulates scientific evidence and rhetoric to sell stem-cell products, therapies, and ideas,” the paper states.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2025

He exaggerates the word “theater” so that it sounds like thee-a-tah.

From "The Fourteenth Goldfish" by Jennifer L. Holm

Colombian deputy environment minister David Olarte Amaya, who is attending the summit, said the concerns about his country were exaggerated.

From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026

American experts who work with the Saudi military say stories of disgruntlement among the military are exaggerated.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

Riedels and Mericle find numerous ways in which these extra costs have been miscaptured or exaggerated and conclude that “most of the 20 basis points contribution to core PCE from this category reflects mismeasurement.”

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026

But negative sentiment about the UK market - which was often exaggerated - had contributed to companies leaving in the past, she said.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

Papa slurped his soup in an exaggerated fashion.

From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata

Lamnisos added it wasn't exaggerating to say that "life-saving health information isn't getting to the people who need it most".

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

I’m not exaggerating when I say this happens every single time we go to the movies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

The allegations in these indictments apparently are that they went beyond exaggerating the threats and actually supported these organizations to make them bigger threats so they could then monitor them or do whatever they did.

From Slate ● Aug. 22, 2026

In a recent Visier survey of 1,000 U.S. workers, 48% admitted to exaggerating their AI usage.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026

She had been delighted to see her brother again, but that did not prevent her from exaggerating her feelings to avoid her sister’s accusing question.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan