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
It is not an exaggeration to say this era could be remembered for the crimes against cricket committed in Australia, even if England do regain the Ashes on home soil next summer.
From BBC • Jun. 3, 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
This was a dramatic and gratifying thing to hear—and one which I repeated to a number of people—but secretly I thought it was an exaggeration.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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Theodore Roosevelt on "The Man with the Muck Rake" (1906)
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