Overstatement

In its June 26, 1948 issue, The New Yorker published Shirley Jackson’s unsettling story “The Lottery,” and it’s not an overstatement to say that readers freaked out.

Many economists regard 3 percent, China’s official growth rate last year, as an overstatement of the true performance of the economy, which had been smothered by stringent “zero Covid” measures and spreading pandemic lockdowns.

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.

It wouldn't be an overstatement to call the best of the many Austen updates.

One last thing: To hail Vajpayee as a statesman, as the film does, may seem like an overstatement.

It’s no overstatement to say that it’s this which is going to sell the phone.

No surprise, this follows on Trump’s praise for torch-wielding neo-Nazi supporters in Charlottesville, Virginia, and vast overstatement of the threat from a loose anti-fascist coalition known as antifa.

The most dramatic overstatement came with the largest loan in the deal, $120 million for Bonnie Ridge Apartments, a 960-apartment complex in a suburban part of Baltimore.

The Rule utilitarianism is similar to Kantian ethics which seems like a bit of an overstatement or at least unclear in a rather infelicitous way.

But with more than $7 billion in profit, that may be a bit of an overstatement.

I don’t think it’s an overstatement to suggest that Black folks are starved for images of ourselves in love, on the big screen.

That may sound like an overstatement, but really," she said.

But the notion that it would somehow be a pipe dream for the director of “Gravity” to win a major release for his all-time labor of love feels like a drastic overstatement.

In fact, it’s not an overstatement to say the vast network of Cooperative Extension offices and research facilities operated by the UC has enabled agriculture in the Golden State to survive amid daunting challenges.

Meanwhile, Donald Trump’s unhinged language took the new overstatement to a whole new level.

That’s an overstatement, of course — you need a résumé.

The hysterical push back from the elitists of the right showed signs of flat panic – there was sneering, denigration, and ridiculous overstatement.

A few KSR1 models were sold, and as the KSR2 was being rolled out, the company collapsed amid accounting irregularities involving the overstatement of revenue.

Henry's tenure led to an overstatement of previously unknown sacral kingship.

Jensen and Rushton consider that it may account for as little as 20% of the gap W.hie Hunt considers this a vast overstatement he nonetheless considers it likely that some portion of the gap will eventually be shown to be caused by genetic factors.