-
Schopenhauer saw
exaggeration as
essential to journalism. He may have
overstated this case, but
yellow journalism thrived on exaggeration, and fact-checking...
- the cir****ference of the Earth,
causing their degree measurements to
overstate its
length west from
Rhodes or Alexandria, respectively.
Alternative versions...
-
consider inflation.
Without adjusting for inflation,
figures tend to
overstate the
effects of
economic growth.
International comparisons can be distorted...
-
generalizations about the use of
bitcoin in
illicit finance are
significantly overstated and that
blockchain analysis is an
effective crime fighting and intelligence...
-
complex methods for
misusing or
misdirecting funds,
overstating revenues,
understating expenses,
overstating the
value of
corporate ****ets, or underreporting...
- that
bullet fragments could be
matched to a box of ammunition, was so
overstated that it was
misleading under the
rules of evidence. One year later, the...
- most
doctors are
overly optimistic when
making a prognosis; they tend to
overstate how long a
patient might live. For
patients who are
critically ill, particularly...
- ****umed the
status of a mid-tier power. However,
historians have
sometimes overstated the
extent of this decline,
especially when
considering the
period up...
- In the
United States,
poverty has both
social and
political implications. In 2020,
there were 37.9
million people in poverty. Some of the many
causes include...
- In 1993,
Buckingham Palace called estimates of £100 million "grossly
overstated". In 1971, Jock Colville, her
former private secretary and a director...
