overstatement
Example Sentences
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After his 1997 retirement, Buntrock and four executives settled a 2005 SEC lawsuit for over $30 million for alleged profit overstatements.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 28, 2026
By putting them into a character whose goal is in fact to educate, and by blowing them up into amusing overstatements, she keeps the play itself from becoming gassy.
From New York Times • Nov. 23, 2021
In recent days, he drew controversy because of his apparent overstatements of his national security experience.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 2, 2019
These overstatements limit FCC and tribal users’ ability to target broadband funding to tribal lands.”
From The Verge • Sep. 24, 2018
I left him, wondering why he felt it necessary to make so many ridiculous overstatements.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
Vocabulary lists containing overstatement
STAAR English II: Literary Devices and Figures of Speech
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Reading: Literature - High School
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