How To Use Overstatement In A Sentence
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best" is a bit of an overstatement, but 5 great-aboveaverage starters is more than most organizations.
Comments for FanGraphs Baseball
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MikeGene: Yet not all misrepresentation is overstatement.
Advocacy in Science: a Parasitic Practice
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That the mining operations have uplifted the standard of living of the people in that region is not an overstatement.
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And swiftie wins the overstatement award of the entire campaign:
Hillary Spokesperson Compares Obama To...Ken Starr!
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With the air of a subordinate grieved at the necessity of being a messenger of ill tidings, and while conscientiously determined to be frank, yet equally resolved upon shunning overstatement, Claggart, at this invitation or rather summons to disburthen, spoke up.
Billy Budd
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Second, it is well known that the inflation index used to "deflate" wage increases, the Consumer Price Index (CPI), has a built in overstatement
Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local
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You, of course, are free to define "overstatement" any way you wish.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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And in that, Mike has put together a number of essays written since the 1970s and I found it quite an education and quite a sobering thing to read those again and to see how at a particular moment in the heat of a particular argument you're inexorably pulled towards that kind of overstatement and then you have to wait until the pressure comes to the other kind of overstatement.
Rowan Williams on Writing
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Reports that Ministers at Wednesday's Cabinet meeting - where next week's special meeting had been decided on - had almost indulged in fisticuffs were an "overstatement" and had created the wrong impression.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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That was a huge overstatement, but it at least demonstrates how widespread the discourse of political radicalism had become.
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This may have been an improvement, but "breakthrough" was an overstatement.
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The notion that the Social Security system is facing a severe crisis is a vast and cynical overstatement.
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It sounds like a ridiculous overstatement, but it's true.
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So he's really looking at this from a whole different perspective, looking at your lean mass versus your fat and saying that if you go into a starvation mode, which he is claiming is every three hours, and that might be a little bit an overstatement, that you get into what's called a catabolic state, and you're breaking down your muscle mass, which is what keeps burning at higher calorie levels.
CNN Transcript Dec 30, 2005
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Let me cite one sample: Holmes once wrote that "Canadians have a sour reputation for nauseous holiness and hypocrisy" and, he added, "Our rhetoric too often outpaces our contribution: 'Holmes was equally pungent in castigating Americans whose greatest sin, he believed, was overstatement.
The View From Washington
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The auditors' failure to attend stocktaking and identify the overstatement of stock is evidence of negligence, writes a litigation support partner at Kingston Smith.
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Also good is the news that the SEC won’t be enforcing any action for the pesky circulation overstatement from a while back.
Dallas Blog, Daily News, Dallas Politics, Opinion, and Commentary FrontBurner Blog D Magazine » Blog Archive » Belo Be Strong
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Lenin's Tomb author Richard Seymour - he finds that in the transition to the printed page all the faults of those with 'blogorrhea' are starkly revealed: sloppy research, cheap name-calling, historical immaturity, overstatement, distortion, factual errors and near-endless repetition.
New Humanist Blog
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To say that all purges are bad is probably an overstatement.
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It would be an overstatement to say that Lewis deserved to win the race.
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I agree that the piece is positive, though I think “glowingly positive” is an overstatement.
The Volokh Conspiracy » CNN Profiles Lawyers in Same-Sex Marriage Case
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Further, Newton's assumption that Wallace is the sole practitioner of the artful defusion of 'high brow' pretension by 'street slang' is an overstatement -- recall Joyce's exhausting of the entire practice in his "Oxen of the Sun" episode of Ulysses where the whole history of the English language is satirized, equally, from its inception to his contemporary cockney.
Omer Rosen: Footnoting David Foster Wallace: Part 1
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In a review for New Humanist of two recent books written by political bloggers - Liberal Fascism by National Review Online blogger Jonah Goldberg, and The Liberal Defence of Murder by Lenin's Tomb author Richard Seymour - he finds that in the transition to the printed page all the faults of those with 'blogorrhea' are starkly revealed: sloppy research, cheap name-calling, historical immaturity, overstatement, distortion, factual errors and near-endless repetition.
New Humanist Blog
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Surely, even though it is necessary to question and dismantle canons, it is not an overstatement to claim that classical literature is the cornerstone of Western literature and society.
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For four decades he has quietly been a voice of reason and restraint in a critical world prone to overstatement.
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Official overstatements of the amount the nation has been setting aside for retirement have compounded the problem.
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A powerful indictment of the system, it errs on the side of cartoonish overstatement once or twice but overall is well worth seeing.
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It would be an overstatement to say that Lewis deserved to win the race.
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That overstatement is being cultivated to get more control of environmental and social issues.
Think Progress » Inhofe’s Grandchildren Build Igloo To Mock Killer Snow Storm: ‘Al Gore’s New Home’
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The term apocalyptic does come to mind, and that really isn't an overstatement.
CNN Transcript Sep 16, 2005
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Hitt apologized to Haley at the meeting, saying the overstatement was his agency's fault.
Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
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A good example of the overstatement is the PNHP study released yesterday which is rightly being carved up in among other places, Megan McCardle's blog.
Free Lunch!, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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To say that my knowledge of this byway of science fiction is feeble would be a gross overstatement.
Books
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To call the acting wooden would be overstatement, but it's often stiff and mannered.
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The formality and scale of her attire, her pose, and her lack of affectedness suggest class and gender and also hyperbole and overstatement.
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At first glance, such a comment seems like hyperbole, an eulogizing overstatement.
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Beside the fact that Corrigan, Paul Volcker's sidekick at the Federal Reserve and former New York Fed chairman who is co-chairman of Goldman's business standards committee, which wrote the report, is talking up his own book here, notice the haziness of that "overstatement," which can mean almost anything.
Robert Teitelman: Goldman Sachs, Business Standards and the Critics
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I'm not so sure you're helping your cause when you make silly overstatements like that.
