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Meanings of slight exaggeration in English

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Usage of slight exaggeration in English
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However, he did concede that calling it a fleet was a slight exaggeration.
The evolutionary void
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This was, it seemed to Stephen, a slight exaggeration, but he said nothing.
The rebels of ireland: the dublin saga
3
A slight exaggeration maybe, but the comparison is not entirely unjustified.
The Irish Times
4
Okay, that might be a slight exaggeration, but it's still pretty satisfying nonetheless.
The Irish Times
5
There's water everywhere. A slight exaggeration, but a necessary one.
The manning grooms: bride on the loose\same time, next year
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But the raft's coming apart. This was a slight exaggeration, but not total hyperbole.
The Hyperion Cantos
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Karl's statement that she always got perfect scores on everything was only a slight exaggeration.
Fire Season
8
That was a slight exaggeration, but Neil seemed impressed.
Mysterious Skin
9
Which to me always sounded like a slight exaggeration.
The Irish Times
10
The Sunday morning headline called it a celestial atmosphere, and it was only a slight exaggeration.
The Irish Times
11
Perhaps that is a slight exaggeration-wedid gloss over a few centuries in the Middle Ages.
A Preface to Politics
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It's only a slight exaggeration to say that, at one stage, his listeners were all at sea.
The Irish Times
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It's only a slight exaggeration to say that art fairs have quietly taken over the art world.
The Irish Times
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A slight exaggeration, but the confidence, the verve and the nerve of them are all quite exhilarating.
The Irish Times
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And with 174 countries and international organisations participating, that piece of hype is only a slight exaggeration.
The Irish Times
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He has mysterious ways of camouflaging himself from the rest of us. That was a slight exaggeration.
The evolutionary void
This collocation consists of:
Slight exaggeration through the time
Slight exaggeration across language varieties
Ireland
Common
United Kingdom
Less common
United States of America
Rare