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exaggeration - stretching the truth to make something seem more powerful or meaningful than it actually is.

34:08: exaggeration

- stretching the truth to make something seem more powerful or meaningful than it actually is.
: While Virginia did have a low crime rate, it was never the lowest in America.^[7]

08:00: exaggeration

- stretching the truth to make something seem more powerful or meaningful than it actually is.
: Of the 5.08 million total stop-and-frisks under Bloomberg, about half (2.6 million) were of blacks, and far less were of young black men.^[3]

18:35: exaggeration

- stretching the truth to make something seem more powerful or meaningful than it actually is.
: The "Disney workers" are actually two (2) laid off Disney workers that publicly endorsed Trump.^[1]

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