understate
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Separately, the new chair of the OBR Jonathan Haskel is known for his argument that official statistics understate investment in intangibles like software and data.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
Moreover, these percentages understate the long odds that Paramount faces, Gu noted.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026
It’s difficult to understate just how badly Tuesday went for shares of IBM.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 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
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Even that striking number vastly understates the U.S. and allied dependency.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 13, 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
Marco Lavagna, head of Argentina’s Indec statistics agency, stepped down Monday after the government delayed plans to update the country’s inflation index, which economists said understates current price increases.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 5, 2026
But then, we venture to point out, that the learned Professor considerably understates the case: seeing that the “vice versâ presumption” is absolutely non-existent.
From The Revision Revised by John William Burgon
But this we must discover for ourselves, for the wall labels of the exhibition—curated by Cindy Kang of the Barnes—are mercifully understated.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2026
The ending is so understated yet so piercing that it may take days to process how deftly it encapsulates the shared tragedy that, decades later, still ensnares them all.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 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
“Help me to understated: What is the virtue in denying one’s own desires to satisfy another’s will?”
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
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A U.K. parliamentary inquiry concluded that the government mis-sold loans to students for over a decade by understating their eventual costs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 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
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