understatement

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Grace and Faith must work together, using their namesake virtues to outsmart the scoundrels and stay alive, and to say it’s far less effective than it was seven years ago is an understatement.

From Salon • Mar. 29, 2026

To describe Italy's qualifying campaign as anything other than eventful would be quite the understatement.

From BBC • Mar. 25, 2026

“To say this chronology represents, at a minimum, a concerning breach of the spirit of the dismissal order is an understatement, if not an outright violation of it,” Cannon wrote.

From Slate • Feb. 26, 2026

To say the home has seen a lot in the past 15 years is an understatement.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 17, 2026

That turned out to be an understatement of considerable magnitude.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown