overstatement
Example Sentences
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“Since 2016, we’ve recruited 20,000 people that have applied for membership in the party,” Sims told me, though the party has long suffered from overstatement when it comes to self-reported membership numbers.
From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2026
“This might be too big of an overstatement, but it feels very human to use the media to try to provide a perspective on history in that way.”
From Salon ● Apr. 12, 2026
That’s an overstatement, as is the later claim that for Pericles “cold logic and science trumped religion.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 2026
"It's not an overstatement to say most of their lives were ruined by North Korea," judge Taiichi Kamino said at a ruling at the Tokyo District Court on Monday, according to an Associated Press report.
From BBC ● Jan. 26, 2026
This may sound like an overstatement, but upon examination it proves accurate.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
Vocabulary lists containing overstatement
STAAR English II: Literary Devices and Figures of Speech
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Reading: Literature - High School
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Imagery, Figures of Speech, and Tone
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