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overstatement

noun as in exaggeration

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The occasion is “Velour: A Drag Spectacular” — and the word spectacular is not an overstatement.

It is not an overstatement to suggest World War II may have turned out differently had Alan Turing not been able to crack the encrypted messages that enabled the Allies to defeat the Axis.

Wilcock calls Ashe’s claims that her new paper replicated the Nature findings “an overstatement.”

While the building’s plaque lists Smith Tower at 42 stories, that is a bit of an overstatement — the builders claimed it was technically 42 of what, by measure, could be considered a story, but the building has always had a maximum of 38 actual floors — even fewer at the time of its construction.

But Biden says constantly that many people used to pay up to $400 monthly, which is an overstatement.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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