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The cult of the chief executive exists, although whether or not it is overblown depends on the chief executive.
对首席执行官的崇拜真的存在，尽管这是不是过分吹嘘取决于首席执行官。
A contemporary observer described the king as being ‘married to his army’ and the metaphor was, in this case, not overblown.
一个同时代的观察家形容这位国王‘嫁给了他的军队’，而这个比喻在这个个案中一点也不过分。
Some experts claimed the news was overblown --that the new bug was no worse than many others -- even as other experts, meanwhile, opined that antibiotics could soon be obsolete altogether.
有些专家声称这些报道是在炒冷饭，因为这些新药并不逊于其它的药。但于此同时，另一些专家则说，抗生素即将被完全废弃。

Democrats say Sotomayor's comment was taken out of context and has been overblown.
I think it's actually overblown that the, the top universities in this country are so difficult.
我觉得其实顶尖大学的课程难这一点是被夸大了。
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Despite what he calls overblown fears of a double-dip recession, Cardillo predicts the U.S.economy will grow between two and a half to three percent for the second half of the year.

Some of the kitchen-sink allegations against the Marshalls are clearly overblown, if not wrong.
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Something that is overblown makes something seem larger, more important, or more significant than it really is.