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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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To call the acting wooden would be overstatement, but it's often stiff and mannered.
The formality and scale of her attire, her pose, and her lack of affectedness suggest class and gender and also hyperbole and overstatement.
That the mining operations have uplifted the standard of living of the people in that region is not an overstatement.
For four decades he has quietly been a voice of reason and restraint in a critical world prone to overstatement.
It is probably not much of an overstatement to say that Arthur Ochs Sulzberger saved The New York Times.
At first glance, such a comment seems like hyperbole, an eulogizing overstatement.

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