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So while Americans are hoping that their fears are overstated, here’s what they should expect, or at least prepare for.

To define this show of support by major corporations for LGBT equality as a seachange would be no overstatement.

Perhaps ascribing a distaste for the Oscar winner and soon-to-be Interstellar star is an overstatement.

It is probably not much of an overstatement to say that Arthur Ochs Sulzberger saved The New York Times.

To call the Canadian publisher Harlequin a monopoly in the romance genre might be an overstatement, but not by much.

A source close to Olbermann called the characterization of the incident "a gross overstatement."

Yet this might perhaps be regarded as something of an overstatement.

He alone, faultless in the balance of his exquisite vision, was saved quite from this danger of overstatement.

It would be an overstatement to say that he was shocked or even excited by the amazing announcement.

Whether this was an overstatement or not, it was soon seen to contain much truth.

Is this the grave philosophical conclusion of a careful observer, or is it a crude, hasty, and careless overstatement?