exaggeration
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If attributing the outbreak of the Civil War to the publication of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” was an exaggeration, it was a defensible one.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 19, 2026
“Here, we see characters sad in the way that we are sad and we go, ‘Oh, this is not a cartoon exaggeration of our sadness.’
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 15, 2026
It’s no exaggeration to say 2025 was a blowout year for quantum stocks.
From Barron's • Apr. 27, 2026
Epidemiologist Abby Lippman dubbed such exaggeration of what genes do “geneticization,” and Ball calls geneticization a “hair’s breadth away from eugenics.”
From Slate • Mar. 19, 2026
Robbie made a great show of removing his boots which weren’t dirty at all, and then, as an afterthought, took his socks off as well, and tiptoed with comic exaggeration across the wet floor.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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Theodore Roosevelt on "The Man with the Muck Rake" (1906)
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