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What is an overstatement?

What is an overstatement? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. An exaggeration; a statement in excess of what is reasonable.
  2. The tendency to overstate.
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It is probably not much of an overstatement to say that Arthur Ochs Sulzberger saved The New York Times.
Journalists, never shy of overstatement, are complicit, and politicians need no encouragement.
That the mining operations have uplifted the standard of living of the people in that region is not an overstatement.
At first glance, such a comment seems like hyperbole, an eulogizing overstatement.
Dial-up Internet subscribers for prior periods have been restated to correct an overstatement of business dial-up customers.
The formality and scale of her attire, her pose, and her lack of affectedness suggest class and gender and also hyperbole and overstatement.

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