overdramatize
Example Sentences
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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
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
Asked if journalists overdramatize the meaning of their workplaces, his voice turns grave: “No. We do not.”
From Washington Post ● Dec. 7, 2015
Amis is temperamentally a satirist, of course, and so his tendency is to overdramatize pretty much everything.
From Slate ● Oct. 5, 2014
Twenty-six hands must tell their story but not overdramatize.
From Voices from the Past by Paul Alexander Bartlett
