overdramatize
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“It is possible to get rid of it, so I don’t think we have to overdramatize what is happening.”
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 17, 2022
“Not to overdramatize, but it feels dangerous,” she said.
From New York Times ● Dec. 12, 2019
All the dispatchers I spoke to basically asked of me: 'Will you please show us in a real light and not overdramatize what this job is like?'
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 29, 2017
A lot of people probably expected something stylized and grandiose, in keeping with some of Scorsese’s later movies, but the restraint, the refusal to overdramatize, feels like a return to the elemental.
From Slate ● Jan. 4, 2017
Twenty-six hands must tell their story but not overdramatize.
From Voices from the Past by Paul Alexander Bartlett
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