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Example sentences for: understatement

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Surely an entry for the understatement of the year.
Although this approach seems reasonable, there is a potential for substantial overstatement or understatement because the amount of estimated domestic postage-based terminal dues calculated under this procedure represents 4 percent of total IC payments to FPAs and 14 percent of total DC payments.
To say that the record of Opel-designed cars on American highways has been disappointing would be an understatement.
It was the primal scene of maternal betrayal, the older woman eliciting the confession all too easily from the younger one and then using it to make her the laughingstock of the nation: Walters asks Lewinsky to imagine hypothetical children; Lewinsky tells them that "Mommy made a big mistake"; Walters concludes with a stunning outburst of moral hypocrisy, "And that is the understatement of the year."
To say that it’s a rush is an understatement, and their eco-conscious pamphlet is good for a chuckle, considering the reality of the experience.