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overstatement

/oh-ver-steyt/US // ˌoʊ vərˈsteɪt //UK // (ˌəʊvəˈsteɪt) //

夸大其词,夸大其辞,夸夸其谈,夸张的说法

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v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    o·ver·stat·ed, o·ver·stat·ing.

    • : to state too strongly; exaggerate: to overstate one's position in a controversy.

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Examples

  • I was driving off into a lot of unknowns that morning, but I can’t overstate how comforting it felt to throw the filter into my car over the haphazardly packed suitcases.

  • First, they argued that the county is overstating the extent to which information it reports to the state is confidential.

  • It’s hard to overstate the challenges, but what’s clear is that emerging machine learning tools can tackle data processing challenges.

  • The controllerIt’s hard to overstate how much of a differentiator the new DualSense controller really is.

  • So while Americans are hoping that their fears are overstated, here’s what they should expect, or at least prepare for.

  • To define this show of support by major corporations for LGBT equality as a seachange would be no overstatement.

  • Perhaps ascribing a distaste for the Oscar winner and soon-to-be Interstellar star is an overstatement.

  • It is probably not much of an overstatement to say that Arthur Ochs Sulzberger saved The New York Times.

  • To call the Canadian publisher Harlequin a monopoly in the romance genre might be an overstatement, but not by much.

  • A source close to Olbermann called the characterization of the incident "a gross overstatement."

  • Yet this might perhaps be regarded as something of an overstatement.

  • He alone, faultless in the balance of his exquisite vision, was saved quite from this danger of overstatement.

  • It would be an overstatement to say that he was shocked or even excited by the amazing announcement.

  • Whether this was an overstatement or not, it was soon seen to contain much truth.

  • Is this the grave philosophical conclusion of a careful observer, or is it a crude, hasty, and careless overstatement?