Example sentences for: overstate

How can you use “overstate” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The Commission believes that these estimates greatly overstate the number of small entities affected and reserves the right to adopt a more suitable definition of "small business" as applied to television broadcast stations at a later date following the conclusion of several pending proceedings at the Commission seeking comment on the definition of and data relating to small businesses and compliance with section 601(3) of the Regulatory Flexibility Act.

  • But these kinds of calculations vastly overstate the marriage penalty.

  • Nor can I overstate the fear that every low-income mother throughout the United States and around the world must carry with her every day: that the consequences of poverty will ultimately catch up with her children, too.

  • And if official productivity statistics understate the real rate of progress by 1 percent, official price statistics also overstate inflation by exactly the same amount.

  • As several people noted, the percentages Chatterbox cited in his previous item (" Do Vacations Kill?") overstate some vacation dangers in the sense that, say, the higher incidence of drowning deaths compared with falling deaths reflects the much greater number of people who swim as compared with the number who climb mountains.


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