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Falsehoods & Distortions

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

04:29: exaggerationsee definition - stretching the truth, to make something seem more powerful or meaningful than it actually is.
: As of this day, 73.6% of American adults are fully vaccinated.[3]

34:08: exaggerationsee definition - 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.[8]

08:00: exaggerationsee definition - 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]