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exaggerating

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Exaggerating the importance of low-float stocks in an index used purely for investment purposes looks awful to many, including my colleague Jason Zweig.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 3, 2026

Exaggerating its upsides is detrimental to this goal.

From Slate • Mar. 29, 2023

Exaggerating the impact that one or two cabinet members can make on any country is unsophisticated — as so many Washingtonians know.

From Washington Post • Dec. 4, 2022

Exaggerating a short career blanketed with wrongdoing and controversy.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 17, 2022

Exaggerating the mathematical precision of French thought, it is yet tempered in a manner somewhat uncommon, by the most wholesale picture-writing on which man ever yet ventured.

From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, September, 1851 by Various