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"Overstate" in a Sentence (15 examples)
Let's not overstate matters here.
I don't want to overstate things.
He's a minor player, but tends to overstate his own importance.
Tom likes to overstate things.
Don't overstate your contributions.
To claim that Tom Jackson had fallen into obscurity would be to overstate things: no one had ever taken notice of him in the first place.
I can't overstate how terrified I was when I saw Lajos with a gun in his hand.
But some academics say politicians can overstate their influence over the economy.
I can't overstate my thanks for your friendly help.
It's hard to overstate just how important this contract is to the company.
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I think it is overstating matters to say that an hour online is spending all night on the computer.
He was suggested not to overstate at the interview.
In a closely reasoned article in The Guardian, Mr. D. L. Munby, Oxford University's Reader in the Economics and Organisation of Transport, has taken Dr. Beeching to task for overstating his case for withdrawing stopping train services as money-losers.
Career diplomat Conrad Tribble said on Twitter that multiculturalism “is one of our greatest strengths as a country, and I go to that well often as an American diplomat. It’s hard to overstate the global soft power impact of America’s cultural diversity.”
A Nobel prize-winning US biologist, who has been widely quoted describing a “smoking gun” to support the thesis that Covid-19 was genetically modified and escaped from a Wuhan lab, has said he overstated the case.
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