| It is increasingly common for the rich to understate the value of gifts in order to avoid paying taxes on property passed on to heirs. |
| It's possible that these writers have a different syntactic frame for the verb understate. |
| To say this book caused a sensation is to understate its impact. |
| Plant managers often willfully understate actual capacity so as to be given easily fulfillable production targets. |
| Never one to underestimate or understate her own judgements, she feels that China is communist and calls a red a red. |
| If the consumer price index sometimes overstates inflation, as some have argued, that could understate progress against poverty. |
