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- noun Plural form of
understatement .
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Examples
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And, if Energy is "G_d", as some believe, or but one of many manifestations or reflections of "G_d" as others may believe, the words, in any spiritual tradition, that "G_d is great" or "G_d is awesome" are almost laughable understatements.
Richard Greene: Albert Einstein And The Scientific Proof Of 'God' Richard Greene 2011
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And, if Energy is "G_d", as some believe, or but one of many manifestations or reflections of "G_d" as others may believe, the words, in any spiritual tradition, that "G_d is great" or "G_d is awesome" are almost laughable understatements.
Richard Greene: Albert Einstein And The Scientific Proof Of 'God' Richard Greene 2011
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There can also be more penalties for big understatements or underpayments of estimated income tax.
If You Goofed on Your Taxes, Fix It. Now. Arden Dale 2011
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If you read the full 50-page version of the trust's findings, their much-quoted summary statements along the lines that the incident showed "serious editorial failings on the part of Panorama" and that the programme "failed to reach" the high standards expected of a BBC flagship, begin to look like understatements.
The BBC Trust's finding on Primark is damaging for Panorama 2011
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Who could have known, when Bill Shankly came to make his famous assessment of the relative importance of football and matters of life and death, that it would one day appear the most quaint of understatements?
No political gain in Iraqi football – so leave the players well alone Marina Hyde 2010
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There can also be more penalties for big understatements or underpayments of estimated income tax.
If You Goofed on Your Taxes, Fix It. Now. Arden Dale 2011
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The IRS is simply not equipped to ferret out income overstatements, only understatements.
The 1990's Bubble Economy, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Worst line: No. 1: “To say that this hit the earth like a molten-lava tsunami would have been the grossest of understatements.”
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The IRS is simply not equipped to ferret out income overstatements, only understatements.
The 1990's Bubble Economy, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Not knowing the thickness of ice sheets can lead to huge understatements — or overstatements — of how much ice really exists.
European Scientist Finally Ready to Launch Ice Measuring Satellite | Inhabitat 2010
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