exaggeration

Throughout the trial, Davis' defence team tried to persuade jurors that his comments were fiction - bravado and exaggeration intended to sell books and make money.

From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026

It can’t be an exaggeration to say that tens of millions are grieving her death.

From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026

"It is no exaggeration to call this extreme heat a 'disaster' with many people being rushed to hospitals or even dying as a result of heatstroke," it said.

From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026

Its factories once stretched for nearly a mile down Myrtle Street, pumping out millions of screwdrivers, drills and other tools that, without exaggeration, helped build America over the past two centuries.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 6, 2026

I forced myself along, keeping to the road, though to speak of the muddy path I took as a road was a gross exaggeration.

From "Crispin: The Cross of Lead" by Avi

Strauss regularly goes off the rails in his exaggerations, but with Dudamel there are no railing critics or anything thing else, not that he doesn’t have cause.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2026

It was one of several exaggerations throughout the wide-ranging interview.

From Salon ● May 10, 2026

Wednesday's report confirms inaccuracies and exaggerations despite being there "a significant level of disorder" around the fixture.

From BBC ● Jan. 14, 2026

Such exaggerations of scale—both up and down, but mostly up—are a key dynamic in the V&R vision.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2025

At once, Penelope wondered if her well- intended exaggerations might have been unwise.

From "The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling" by Maryrose Wood