Understates Sentence Examples

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  • However looking at the full year understates the extent of the change throughout the year.

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  • It shows that the Autobiography rather understates the amount of work done.

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  • Even this, however, understates the case, seeing that a really inscrutable Unknowable would destroy all confidence in the order of nature and render all knowledge entirely precarious.

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  • Because its meaning has to be imputed, we have tended to describe it in terms of prior technologies—which, in many cases, understates its potential by many orders of magnitude.

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