overstate

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• Those stories would have been wrong or overstated but would have become the narrative.

• Failing to repeat as champions is hardly a catastrophe — it’s notoriously difficult to do so — but the importance of Champions League qualification cannot be overstated.

• It’s easy to overstate what has happened so far, which is mainly a change in legal designation.

• Many of you believe the long-term impact of the pandemic won’t die off but that its effects have been overstated.

• The watchdog said it found evidence of false forecasting, meaning utilities were overstating how much water would be sold, and, when that didn’t pan out, the company could go back and tack on a surcharge.

• It is difficult to overstate how destructive the practice of dismembering ancient and medieval books is.

• Maher, and certainly conservative critics, overstate the extent to which liberals fail to make common cause with such folks.

• I could not possibly overstate the need for an urgent response.

• Or, not to overstate the case, it would have been like getting too far from a bathroom for the males among us 50 years later.

• It's impossible to overstate the extent of the disaster this represents for the Middle East as a region.

• But he interrupted her ere she had gone far, "Mademoiselle de La Vauvraye," said he, "you overstate the matter."

• I do not at all overstate the fact, when I say, that 50,000 slaves are annually landed in Cuba.