overstate
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"We also can't overstate the importance of the patient population and their involvement in developing therapies and their dedication to understanding their disease."
From Science Daily ● Jul. 26, 2026
Foster is careful not to overstate the link.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
“It is hard to overstate how significant last night’s earnings were,” O’Regan wrote in his note to clients.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 25, 2026
“You simply can’t overstate how much damage this has done to Scotland’s international reputation and to the entire independence movement,” said Kevin McKenna, a columnist for the Herald newspaper in Glasgow.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
In fact, by terming it a 'problem', I perhaps overstate the matter.
From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro
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The May headline number alone overstates the slowdown in single-family construction, the kind of houses most public builders construct.
From Barron's ● Jun. 16, 2026
But the paper overstates the risk of disruption, Benchmark’s Christopher Kuhn writes in a note.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 13, 2026
Nancy Vanden Houten, lead economist at Oxford Economics, said the report "overstates" the emerging strength of the labour market, noting that the bulk of the job gains were concentrated in just a few sectors.
From BBC ● Feb. 11, 2026
Even this low number overstates the risk, since the S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats Index historically has outperformed a portfolio containing all high-yielding stocks.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 13, 2025
It also overstates the importance of rare geniuses, such as Watt and Edison.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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Still, many economists think the weakness is overstated.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 7, 2026
As for claims that the substance mimics the amino acid profile of human skin, Rogers said the comparison is often overstated.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026
The search threat turned out to be overstated.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
When drawing comparisons with Norway, it cannot be overstated how the outrageous Haaland hauls them up a fair bit.
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026
The extent of the panic was overstated by the press, too.
From "Spooked!" by Gail Jarrow
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In the mid-1990s, with inflation falling to multidecade lows, he told Congress the consumer-price index, used to calculate Social Security checks and tax brackets, was overstating inflation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026
At the same time, she cautioned against overstating the gender differences.
From MarketWatch ● May 21, 2026
In March 2024, Hui was fined $6.5m and banned from China's capital market for life for his company overstating its revenue by $78bn.
From BBC ● Apr. 14, 2026
Microsoft’s comments could help relieve concerns that large technology companies are overstating the useful life of Nvidia chips and other AI processors that power their data centers.
From Barron's ● Jan. 29, 2026
I doubt that I am overstating the case here: our capacity to understand and manipulate human genomes alters our conception of what it means to be “human.”
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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