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How to use the word exaggerate in a Sentence?

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There is a story that psychiatry doesn’t dare tell, which shows that our societal delusion about the benefits of psychiatric drugs isn’t entirely an innocent one. In order to sell our society on the soundness of this form of care, psychiatry has had to grossly exaggerate the value of its new drugs, silence critics, and keep the story of poor long-term outcomes hidden.

Robert Whitaker

added by JokerGem
11 months ago

This is a big ask, but it does not exaggerate the scale of what is needed, it is categorically not enough to just rely on gas from non-Russian sources — these supplies are simply not available in the volumes required to substitute for missing deliveries from Russia.

Fatih Birol

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I've told you a million times, don't exaggerate!!

Unknown

added by balsamcalvin
2 years ago

I think it will generate some more caution among entrepreneurs, but for the most part, human nature being what it is, there is still going to be a tendency to exaggerate, especially when you know you might not get funded if you don't, and I don't think it will change many investors' attitudes.

Richard Greenfield

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Even traumatic experiences can be subjected to post-event suggestion that can exaggerate, distort or change the memory.

Elizabeth Loftus

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Glass ceiling ? Ha ! What glass ceiling ? Women, women exaggerate the problem of sexism.

Larry Elder

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I was concerned about her and said to Ana to speak to the teachers and ask them to see a doctor and phone me back. I told her to exaggerate her symptoms if necessary to get the result and say that her parents were concerned, i also offered to speak to them myself. I believe Ana spoke to Mr. (Rory) Hambly as she reported back that Mr. Hambly had told her that she would have had a higher temperature if she had a chest infection and advised her to take paracetamol.

Natalia Uglow

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Most of the short positions are funded on margins. And so when markets run against you, you are stopped out if you are a short seller, a short position can exaggerate your losses if you are not actively managing your position.

Kaspar Hense

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

We did not exaggerate anything. We're not backtracking at all from the 80 %.

Adrian Hill

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I couldnt really exaggerate or fabricate any of these stories, theyre just too bizarre.

Matt Daybell

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

The message to anyone watching, anyone listening. The best way to advance yourself now is to be the loudest voice in the mob, to carry your point at all costs. That its OK to lie ... and exaggerate the truth and anyone who sees it or disagrees with it doesnt matter.

Kevin Costner

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

This is someone whos likely to exaggerate the dangerous impulses of the president towardbelligerence, his proclivity to act without thinking, and his love of conspiracy theories, and Ill, you know, just add one data point to what you were talking about earlier, John Bolton once suggested on Fox News that the Russian hack of the DNC [Democratic National Committee] was a false flag operation that had been conducted by the Obama administration.

Adam Schiff

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

This is someone whos likely to exaggerate the dangerous impulses of the president towardbelligerence, John Bolton proclivity to act without thinking, and John Bolton love of conspiracy theories, and Ill, you know, just add one data point to what you were talking about earlier, John Bolton once suggested on Fox News that the Russian hack of the DNC [ Democratic National Committee ] was a false flag operation that had been conducted by the Barack Obama administration.

Adam Schiff

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

This is someone whos likely to exaggerate the dangerous impulses of the president towardbelligerence, John Boltons proclivity to act without thinking, and John Boltons love of conspiracy theories, and Ill, you know, just add one data point to what you were talking about earlier, John Boltons once suggested on Fox News that the Russian hack of the DNC [ Democratic National Committee ] was a false flag operation that had been conducted by the Barack Obama administration.

Adam Schiff

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

People exaggerate, particularly in Washington, the impact of gas over oil, for every dollar that Russia earns from oil and gas, 80 cents of that is oil and only 20 cents of it is gas.

Edward Chow

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We hear a lot of stories about New York being unsafe, but we feel like people sometimes exaggerate safety issues.

Kate Fan

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I don't think it's lurid, daytime soaps go into areas - lesbianism, married nuns, a woman in love with a priest - that would not be touched in prime time. And they're super-serious. We just take real situations and exaggerate them.

Katherine Helmond

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

The impact it's going to have is hard to exaggerate, this will be seen as perhaps the biggest economic development event in the history of this region.

Angel Cabrera

Found on CNN
5 years ago

There were no threats made by Ivan Savvidis, especially not involving the use of a weapon, during yesterday’s match, there was an emotional walk out onto the field, probably a breach of sporting regulations, and nothing more. Most of the headlines in the Greek press exaggerate the facts.

Tatyana Gordina

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

They don’t provide their membership lists. They’re not going to tell us or, if they give us numbers, they exaggerate.

Heidi Beirich

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

They’re often a small group of people ... and they tend to fade away due to their inability to organize. they don’t provide their membership lists. They’re not going to tell us or, if they give us numbers, they exaggerate.

Heidi Beirich

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

They have an incentive to exaggerate their capabilities -- particularly for their domestic audience -- to demonstrate awe and power, but we don't know the exact capabilities.

Daniel Pinkston

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I do not exaggerate when I tell you that the foundations of American democracy are being undermined.

Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN
8 years ago

You are not looking at democracy, you are looking at oligarchy -- and we have got to change that, i do not exaggerate when I tell you that the foundations of American democracy are being undermined.

Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN
8 years ago

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