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Meanings of understating in inglês

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Usage of understating in inglês
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The SEC previously charged three bank executives with understating losses in the crisis.
Reuters
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That is understating the case; it is completely inappropriate and unethical.
First degree
3
Republicans seized on his comments as understating the threat of terrorism.
Reuters
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I assure you, sir, that throughout I am understating the case.
King John of Jingalo: The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties
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Don't you see that he would be rather understating his case?
Utopia of Usurers and Other Essays
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Actually, I'm just good at mind reading-whathe really said was, You're understating it.
The Kingmaker
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Therefore, understating the molecular characteristics of such melanomas become indispensable.
Pubmed
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To say I was hurt and bewildered would be understating by about a ton.
Dead ever after
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VW later admitted also to understating carbon dioxide emissions and fuel consumption data in Europe.
Reuters
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This can leave them vulnerable to understating risk, thereby reducing their required level of capital.
Reuters
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Mathematical rounding sometimes affects the results, overstating some changes and understating others, Genscape has said.
Reuters
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Campbell would be seriously understating things if he said tonight's game was just another game.
The Irish Times
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To say that rain is tricky is understating the point by an order of magnitude.
Wired
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To say that Chelsea's new manager is fond of a puff might be understating things.
The Irish Times
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I am sure the speaker was understating the facts.
Level 7
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The government accuses Acacia of understating its gold shipments.
Reuters
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Understating through the time
Understating across language varieties
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