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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
overstate .
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Examples
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Actually, to say that Carlos Slim "jockeyed" for the title overstates the case.
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Actually, to say that Carlos Slim "jockeyed" for the title overstates the case.
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Actually, to say that Carlos Slim "jockeyed" for the title overstates the case.
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The title overstates the case: Wall Street and Washington did not betray the American people: betrayal presumes an obligation, an obligation which existed only as a fantasy in the population at large, a fantasy no more or less vacuous than our millennial belief in gods.
Planet Atheism 2009
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The title overstates the case: Wall Street and Washington did not betray the American people: betrayal presumes an obligation, an obligation which existed only as a fantasy in the population at large, a fantasy no more or less vacuous than our millennial belief in gods.
Planet Atheism 2009
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The title overstates the case: Wall Street and Washington did not betray the American people: betrayal presumes an obligation, an obligation which existed only as a fantasy in the population at large, a fantasy no more or less vacuous than our millennial belief in gods.
Planet Atheism 2009
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The issue is McCain overstates no preconditions as becoming best buddies on day one.
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And because his simplistic approach is so unanalytical, Fromkin overstates and underargues his thesis.
New & Noteworthy 2004
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And because his simplistic approach is so unanalytical, Fromkin overstates and underargues his thesis.
New & Noteworthy 2004
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LEVIN: I mean, I think that kind of overstates it a little bit.
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