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Cash payments help businesses understate turnover to stay below the VAT threshold, while cash wages help them avoid payroll taxes.

From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026

It’s difficult to understate just how badly Tuesday went for shares of IBM.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026

While this approach simplifies planning, it can miss important differences in how inflation actually affects retiree budgets and may understate the real pressure on long-term purchasing power.

From MarketWatch ● May 13, 2026

But if they are broadening into something more persistent, the trimmed mean will understate inflation, possibly by a lot.

From Barron's ● May 11, 2026

Francis saw no reason to understate the power of the helical theory and within several minutes revealed the way Bessel functions gave neat answers.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson

Crude around $100 a barrel understates what businesses are actually paying: Diesel is behaving as though oil were at $200, said Dudley.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

But he understates the scope of the issue.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026

“This understates the costliness to U.S. households though, because tariffs also allow non-importing firms to raise their prices if they’re competing with imports,” Bivens said.

From Salon ● Apr. 15, 2026

Economists say the CPI probably understates the true rate of inflation owing to the government shutdown last fall.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 13, 2026

When a man says, "I 'low that is a purty peart sort of a hoss," he understates for the sake of emphasis.

From The Hoosier Schoolmaster A Story of Backwoods Life in Indiana by Edward Eggleston

Aside from his stage work, Mandell appeared in several films, where he played understated characters grounded in his work in the theater of the absurd.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026

Delaware Life and Clear Spring disclosed in June that they had dramatically understated their share of so-called affiliated assets in their first-quarter filings.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

Plan-enrollment projections, however, have historically understated actual enrollment, CMS said, so the 2027 subscriber tally could be higher.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026

Enter Reinsve and Stan, an ideal pair of leads capable of providing the understated, baseline emotion that Mungiu requires to pull off an undertaking as tricky as “Fjord.”

From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2026

By authentic Ptolemaic standards, then, the procession of Elizabeth Taylor into Rome in the film Cleopatra was actually a rather understated affair.

From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro

That’s understating it: Satellite data weekly updated by the European Union confirm that Canada’s total burned area in 2026 by Aug. 5 was below the 2012-25 average the EU uses as a baseline.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

The move came just hours after the company faced allegations of understating debt and intentionally deceiving shareholders from short-seller firm Muddy Waters.

From Barron's ● Mar. 18, 2026

U.S. accounting rules for intangible assets have been subject to criticism for potentially understating their true value or sometimes excluding some internally developed assets entirely.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 18, 2026

"If I said it felt like getting hit with a sledgehammer, I'd be understating it," Steutel told BBC Sport, describing the moment he found out about the ban.

From BBC ● Nov. 27, 2025

In a tone that suggested she was understating things greatly, she told Dill that he’d be able to buy a few textbooks with the royalties.

From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner