overstate
verb (used with object)
to state too strongly; exaggerate.
will overstate
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future tenseof overstate.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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Pantheon Macroeconomics estimates that US growth in the third quarter came in at a "brisk-looking" 3.5 percent that nonetheless "will overstate the economy's true condition," the research firm said in a note.
From Barron's ● Dec. 23, 2025
“If all of that is true, it’s a negative feedback, and if we don’t capture it in our models they will overstate the warming,” he says.
From Nature ● Jan. 15, 2014
Nothing I can ever say will overstate my estimation of the credit that is deserved by our American doctors and nurses for the great work they are doing.
From "And they thought we wouldn't fight" by Floyd Gibbons
