exaggerate

Dalziel said: "She was a straightforward and calm witness. She did not exaggerate or embellish."

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026

In climate data, "noise" refers to short-erm temperature changes that can temporarily hide or exaggerate the underlying trend.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 1, 2026

All of these categories can distort or exaggerate GDP for reasons that have little to do with the health of the overall economy.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026

And I think it was interesting to try and find levels to it and to have the audience come with you, but not dramatize or exaggerate an emotion.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2026

I don’t exaggerate when I say she shoves me out the door.

From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins

"I doubt 'SI' will stick, in part because it exaggerates the current capacities of AI," he said.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

One factor reinforcing Block’s motivation for shorting credit is his opinion that there is too much passive investing in the market that automatically exaggerates moves when they come.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 1, 2026

The Donroe doctrine also exaggerates the importance of natural resources.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 5, 2026

Tech’s overwhelming dominance of the S&P 500, where the top 10 stocks in the market comprise around 40% of its market value, and crucially a third of its collective earnings, exaggerates the ongoing pullback.

From Barron's ● Nov. 5, 2025

He exaggerates the difficulty of being a student, but his exaggeration reveals a general predicament.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez

Second, as others have noted, the claim is exaggerated at best.

From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026

Camille Grand, a former assistant secretary-general of NATO, said that some complaints were exaggerated.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026

It’s an idea that simply to get through the day we are playing a role of sorts, tuning our conversations to please others, or presenting exaggerated, false or tidied-up versions of ourselves on social media.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

The exaggerated assistance on offer to the seamers throughout was as much to do with the wet weather as the pitch.

From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026

I added my own exaggerated details of how many people had to restrain her, without any mention of how frightened I’d been, and how ashamed I’d felt when she lost control in front of everybody.

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago

What I was saying before is that they were exaggerating the threat.

From Slate ● Aug. 22, 2026

We got in, the car lurched forward and, I’m not exaggerating, less than a block later, the driver stopped the car, jumped out and opened my door.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026

Some economists question if the pattern is repeating itself, thus exaggerating the improvement in the labor market.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 1, 2026

However, he said he had started to become increasingly concerned the company may be "exaggerating" claims.

From BBC ● May 19, 2026

I wouldn’t be exaggerating if I said I was bom knowing what to do when I sat with Cecile: Don’t cry.

From "One Crazy Summer" by Rita Williams-Garcia