How to Use overstate in a Sentence

overstate

verb
Definition of overstatenext
Synonyms for overstatenext
  • It would be overstating the case to say that it was a matter of life or death.
  • But the White House is keen not to overstate any change.
    — Meredith Oyen, The Conversation, 24 May 2022
  • The weirdness of McCarthy’s style is hard to overstate.
    — Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 5 Dec. 2022
  • The human toll of the opioid crisis is hard to overstate.
    — Sam Whitehead, CNN, 17 Mar. 2023
  • But in truth, both sides overstate the impact this case is likely to have on the law or on the ground.
    — Simon Lazarus, The New Republic, 2 Oct. 2023
  • The film’s title rather overstates the Frankenstein of it all.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 7 Feb. 2024
  • This elongates the neck and jawline and overstates the power of surgery.
    — Jolene Edgar, Allure, 1 Dec. 2023
  • There is no way to overstate how the Supreme Court has changed the political mood.
    — Dan Balz, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Apr. 2023
  • The good news is that the summer slide is often overstated.
    — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 10 July 2023
  • The level of nationwide anger at the parties is hard to overstate.
    — Alexander Smith, NBC News, 6 June 2022
  • The consequences of all these forces combined are hard to overstate.
    — Andrew McNicol, CNN, 7 Apr. 2023
  • The point, though, is that its role is often overstated, at least publicly.
    — The Arizona Republic, 19 Apr. 2023
  • The subtext is that because none of the things happened, the threat of climate change as a whole is clearly overstated.
    — WIRED, 10 Mar. 2023
  • The excitement that Abiy’s appointment brought to the country is hard to overstate.
    — Ann Neumann, Harper’s Magazine , 6 Jan. 2023
  • Hard to overstate the importance of this game for Oregon State.
    — oregonlive, 28 Aug. 2022
  • And again, one of the real honors of my career here is to have worked with Barbara Walters, just as hard to -- hard to overstate that.
    — ABC News, 1 Jan. 2023
  • Which means the relevance of banks to the U.S. economy is well overstated.
    — John Tamny, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Companies may overstate what their AI models can do and be used for.
    — Tatum Hunter, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2023
  • But the impact of shoplifting may have been overstated in some cases.
    — Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 12 May 2023
  • Hard to overstate how unusual this shooting in Japan was.
    — Peter Weber, The Week, 8 July 2022
  • Who hasn’t been guilty of overstating their feelings on Valentine’s Day?
    — Dallas News, 14 Feb. 2023
  • According to the founders, some cat food makers on the market overstate the meat content of their products.
    — Jonathan Keane, Forbes, 8 Aug. 2022
  • The book also overstates the influence of the album itself.
    — Marc Ballon, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2023
  • The chain overstated the size of nearly all of their menu items as of May 2022, according to court documents.
    — Elena Santa Cruz, The Arizona Republic, 1 Sep. 2023
  • The importance of beaver fur as a commodity in the 19th century is hard to overstate.
    — Katrina Gulliver, Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2022
  • The glitch was causing the company’s internal accounting to overstate the amount the hedge fund owed back to FTX customers.
    — Eli Tan, Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2023
  • What if others believe James overstates the value of the prospects and question the Reds’ ability to develop, meld and keep them?
    — Mike Bass Special To The Enquirer Usa Today Network, The Enquirer, 25 May 2023
  • John Lennon died 42 years ago Thursday, and his contributions to music and culture are still hard to overstate.
    — Alex Heigl, Peoplemag, 8 Dec. 2022
  • But at the end of the day, his impact on the presidential race is probably being overstated.
    — Nathaniel Rakich, ABC News, 16 Oct. 2023
  • The impact, in those mostly pre-internet days, is hard to overstate: There were television news trucks outside Les Halles the next day.
    — Dwight Garner, New York Times, 18 Oct. 2022

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