exaggerate
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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
Football quarterbacks sometimes exaggerate hits to sell roughing-the-passer penalties.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
And I think it was interesting to try and find levels to it and to have the audience come with you, but not dramatize or exaggerate an emotion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2026
I’m nervous, so I exaggerate all my movements.
From "The Sun Is Also a Star" by Nicola Yoon
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
Dr Simon Williams at Swansea University now thinks health authorities have to be clearer about the dangers of some infectious diseases, in the face of online misinformation which often exaggerates the small risk of vaccines.
From BBC ● Jan. 15, 2025
He exaggerates the word “theater” so that it sounds like thee-a-tah.
From "The Fourteenth Goldfish" by Jennifer L. Holm
Muñoz admits he exaggerated his skill set to get his foot in the door, but he was determined to make the opportunity count.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
Second, as others have noted, the claim is exaggerated at best.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
Camille Grand, a former assistant secretary-general of NATO, said that some complaints were exaggerated.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
It also found that there was a widely held belief that migrants calling from small boats exaggerated the distress, meaning the coastguard underestimated the emergency.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
“Oh, no. No, no. Not wrong. I’ve never known you to be wrong, Bessie. Your facts are always either untrue or exaggerated, but you’re never wrong—no, no.”
From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger
What I was saying before is that they were exaggerating the threat.
From Slate ● Aug. 22, 2026
In a recent Visier survey of 1,000 U.S. workers, 48% admitted to exaggerating their AI usage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
Some economists question if the pattern is repeating itself, thus exaggerating the improvement in the labor market.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 1, 2026
However, he said he had started to become increasingly concerned the company may be "exaggerating" claims.
From BBC ● May 19, 2026
It turns out he wasn’t exaggerating or simply trying to scare me.
From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins
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