exaggerate

Historians say Barton tends to cherry-pick quotes or exaggerate the Christian influence on America’s founding.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026

Dalziel said: "She was a straightforward and calm witness. She did not exaggerate or embellish."

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 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

All of these categories can distort or exaggerate GDP for reasons that have little to do with the health of the overall economy.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 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

Mr. Futterman occasionally exaggerates his case with over-the-top prose.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

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

Tech’s overwhelming dominance of the S&P 500, where the top 10 stocks in the market comprise around 40% of its market value, and crucially a third of its collective earnings, exaggerates the ongoing 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 his movements, lifting his feet like he is stepping onto a stage.

From "The Adoration of Jenna Fox" by Mary E. Pearson

“He certainly exaggerated things,” said Damian Merlo, a Miami-based consultant who worked with Cerimedo on the 2023 campaign of Argentine President Javier Milei, a Trump favorite.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026

“I generally find it exaggerated and melodramatic when someone says that one event or moment changed the rest of their life,” Mr. Daniels writes, but he insists that the claim is appropriate here.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

We get to see a different side of Paul Baker this season with his other friend group, who embody this exaggerated, bro-y masculinity.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2026

Still, he gave the batters a forensic examination with metronomic accuracy and exaggerated movement in the air and off the seam.

From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026

She puffs up her cheeks and wipes a hand across her forehead in an exaggerated gesture of exhaustion.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen

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

"They've scored 60% of their goals that way," Klopp said of the Gunners - exaggerating for effect.

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026

Some economists question if the pattern is repeating itself, thus exaggerating the improvement in the labor market.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 1, 2026

Like many historians, Ms. Fletcher warns against exaggerating the physical and psychological effect of gunpowder weapons upon indigenous peoples who were unfamiliar with such technology.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

He drew it in rage, evilly, exaggerating the difficulties of communication, as if to punish himself for the absolute lack of sense with which he had chosen the place.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez