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Understates meaning
third-person singular simple present indicative of understate
Example sentences (13)
By an even broader measure, California’s 15.4% supplemental poverty rate understates its immense economic divide.
In fact, this EMGL’s methodology of paying 2 percent from its profit understates the correct amount of Guyana’s royalty.
To call this heartbreaking grossly understates the loss.
It understates the depth of U.S. dysfunction this century, its broken political system and the public’s sense of distrust—including of modern medical science—and the difficulty in fixing it.
The unemployment rate has skyrocketed to almost 15%, a level we haven’t seen since the Great Depression, and many economists believe that still understates the number of people out of work.
This figure grossly understates the actual number of Africans enslaved, killed, or displaced as a result of the slave trade.
But that understates the dollar’s continued significance.
But his book understates the horrible truth that divine help is not just needed for the Supreme Court and Parliament, but Indian governance and democracy, too, with its chaotic existence and lack of distributive justice.
On Sunday, Gabbard said “‘traumatic’ understates the experience that the people of Hawaii went through” and added that the person responsible for the alert should be held accountable.
Porter’s title understates his significance in the White House.
While the VA watchdog “found no evidence” that Shulkin was aware of his staffer’s actions, Shulkin understates the extent of Simpson’s deception to justify the free trip and his own actions abroad.
However, this understates the potential of the V-2, since many rockets were misdirected and exploded harmlessly.
It overstates the role of Anthony and Stanton, and it understates or ignores the roles of Stone and other activists who did not fit into the historical narrative that Anthony and Stanton developed.