| NOUN | overstatement | overstatements | |
| SYNO | exaggeration | magnification | overstatement |
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
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- A systematic review of patients and doctors from 2017 found that overstatement of benefits and understatement of risks occurred more often than the alternative.
- It is often recounted that the building was destroyed in the fire, but Frank MacDonald contends this is an overstatement, citing the continued use of the building by the Irish Academy of Letters until its eventual demolition in 1960.
- To contemporary readers, there may seem something 'passive-aggressive' about this sonnet: the emotional manipulation of the extremity of the language in "acquaintance strangle and look strange" looks like a strategy of overstatement, culminating in the statement that the poet is hated.
- He said the album's overstatement was about being "middle-aged and becoming a boring old fart".
- Hyperbole, an overstatement, is a figure of speech in which statements are exaggerated or extravagant. It may be used to reflect or affect strong feelings or a strong impression.
- From 1995 to 1997, he served on the Boskin Commission to assess the accuracy of the United States Consumer Price Index (CPI), having written the definitive criticism of CPI inflation overstatement in 1990.
- Thus, it is an overstatement to state that "Erie" represents the notion that there is no federal common law.
- which remove this overstatement.
- Although Solheim concludes that his reconstruction is 'largely hypothetical', his overstatement of the results of Gorman's excavation has led to inflated claims of Hoabinhian agriculture.
- Less serious offenses, such as failing to complete a census form, may also attract a criminal record, so the contention that criminalizing drug use is draconian can be seen as overstatement.
- Hyperbolic is an adjective describing something that resembles or pertains to a hyperbola (a curve), to hyperbole (an overstatement or exaggeration), or to hyperbolic geometry.
- Shah has broken barriers, both cultural and artistic, and this is not an overstatement.
- The Audit Commission revealed that the SWD failed to adequately monitor the self-assessment of service quality by NGOs, resulting in overstatement or understatement of performance reported.
- The court additionally found that a transaction determined to lack economic substance can still trigger the penalty for overstatement because the overstatement and the action that led to it are inherently tied together.
- or an overstatement of the case that agrarianism was the only common thread in Archaic Greece, reviews are generally positive.
- Generalization of event causation should circumvent overstatement of external impulses.
- "The Yankee language is founded on understatement and not overstatement," said publisher Charles Thompson.
- David Rothkopf proposes that the idea of "Twitter revolution" is an overstatement.
- However, the "Houston Chronicle" criticized the film as a melodrama, saying, "[...]ramatic overstatement saturates just about every piece of this production".
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