transcription, транскрипция: [ oʊvə(r)steɪtmənt ]
( overstatements)
If you refer to the way something is described is an overstatement , you mean it is described in a way that makes it seem more important or serious than it really is.
This may have been an improvement, but ‘breakthrough’ was an overstatement...
= exaggeration
≠ understatement
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