exaggeration
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The available data says the organizational response is at best a huge exaggeration of the rank and file’s view.
From Slate ● Sep. 16, 2026
It can’t be an exaggeration to say that tens of millions are grieving her death.
From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026
That’s an exaggeration, but I get his point.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
He thought the cost quoted by Jersey Water was an "exaggeration" and that the panel's lower-cost calculations were based on retro-fitting existing water treatment plants rather than building a new one.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
Without exaggeration, UOCI’s Patrick Wallace called her the “leading spokesman for the poor in terms of problems with public and private housing.”
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
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Strauss regularly goes off the rails in his exaggerations, but with Dudamel there are no railing critics or anything thing else, not that he doesn’t have cause.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2026
"When I used to give a demo, I used to get so excited. I was like a kid," Molyneux admits of some of his past exaggerations.
From BBC ● Apr. 21, 2026
Such exaggerations of scale—both up and down, but mostly up—are a key dynamic in the V&R vision.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2025
A cartoon version of Jenny Schecter come to life, what transpires in her novel is close, if not on the nose, to what takes place around her, buffered by changed names and literary exaggerations.
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2025
At once, Penelope wondered if her well- intended exaggerations might have been unwise.
From "The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling" by Maryrose Wood
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Theodore Roosevelt on "The Man with the Muck Rake" (1906)
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