verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
case
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Even now I think she overstates her case and ignores the specific tribal, territorial motives of the Balkan conflict.
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As you may have gathered from watching television, Hosea has a tendency to overstate his case .
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She backs up her description of the deteriorating work environment with solid research, though she sometimes overstates her case .
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But, in retrospect, perhaps I overstated the case by proposing that we nationalize the banks.
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It is easy to overstate the case .
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Crediting Gene Kelly with teaching the movies how to dance may be overstating the case .
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Alas, poor Albion. i have deliberately overstated the case .
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For Brailsford, who had a tendency to overstate his case , this marked a decisive turning point in world history.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Opponents say Nader is overstating the gravity of the problem.
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Politicians typically overstate their case in order to get their point across.
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The company says that the dangers of driving while using cell phones have been overstated.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And yet, I overstated the barber's deference and this made me misunderstand, crucially, Waugh's novel.
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First, the agency may seek to expand a given government programme by systematically overstating the benefits or understating the costs.
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For a man so understated personally, he is suprisingly overstated professionally.
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It would be difficult to overstate how important a figure this Baltimore newspaperman was in the world of wine.
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She backs up her description of the deteriorating work environment with solid research, though she sometimes overstates her case.
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The importance to historians of encoding standards that will facilitate data exchange can not be overstated.
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The need for occasional supervision at least when working with the dying can not be overstated.
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The significance of this decline can not be overstated.