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What does overstate mean?

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Verb
  1. To exaggerate; to state or claim too much.
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His banking background means he is careful not to overstate the possibilities from the outset.
Oft-cited Census data apparently overstate the number of uninsured because they undercount the number of people covered by Medicaid.
These impacts were somewhat exaggerated since the Soviet production system tended to overvalue and overstate output.
We should not overstate the risk to Scotland, which remains small, but it is there nonetheless.
It is impossible to overstate the momentousness of such events, and yet they have fallen into a shadowy disregard, eclipsed by recent history.
Statisticians say the inflation figures may overstate the speed of price rises.

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