understatement

Example Sentences

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Prodigious is an understatement for the display, which was curated by the museum’s Massimiliano Gioni, Gary Carrion-Murayari, Vivian Crockett and Madeline Weisburg with Calvin Wang.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

Saying that the Bank is in "wait and see" mode, is an understatement.

From BBC • Mar. 19, 2026

To call CF an under-the-radar company may be an understatement.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 11, 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 what he found was “ahead of its time” would therefore be a squalid understatement.

From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro