exaggerate
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They say AI firms exaggerate the tech's abilities to boost their prominence or profit.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
These figures do not exaggerate the amount of needed borrowing: They understate it.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 24, 2026
In climate data, "noise" refers to short-erm temperature changes that can temporarily hide or exaggerate the underlying trend.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 1, 2026
Football quarterbacks sometimes exaggerate hits to sell roughing-the-passer penalties.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
Suddenly ordinary people could get the benefit of computing without being programmers. ft is impossible to exaggerate how important this was to the flattening of the world.
From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman
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
Divided by competing urges to “join in and stand out,” the dandy exaggerates style to the point of satire and social impertinence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 15, 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
But really, he’s a cringe comedian who exaggerates his anxieties like a tragic clown.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2025
He exaggerates the word “theater” so that it sounds like thee-a-tah.
From "The Fourteenth Goldfish" by Jennifer L. Holm
Yet, Pattinson is so exaggerated, so commedia dell’awful, that if the real Chris Hansen doesn’t sue, it’ll be because he’s calculated that no one would seriously believe this is him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026
Second, as others have noted, the claim is exaggerated at best.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
Camille Grand, a former assistant secretary-general of NATO, said that some complaints were exaggerated.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
But a Ukraine source told Agence France Presse the risk had been "exaggerated".
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
Then she lets out a big exaggerated breath.
From "Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish" by Pablo Cartaya
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
Given the prevalence of such changes, though, others are likely exaggerating their experience, he said: “A lot of it looks like AI washing.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
“His kind of self-mythologizing and exaggerating is part of what makes his youth so interesting.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
Arday is facing accusations of fabricating or exaggerating elements of his CV.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
I’m not exaggerating when I say this, but my heart literally started beating like I’d just run the longest race in the world.
From "Wonder" by R. J. Palacio
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