'exaggerate the fact' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to emphasize something, or when you want to draw attention to a specific point. For example, "The news report exaggerated the fact that the crime rate in the city had increased significantly."
Do not conclude…that I exaggerate the facts.
But Straw published a secondhand account of Blix's comment, that the intelligence-based section of the dossier "did not exaggerate the facts, nor revert to rhetoric, probably both desirable for its credibility".
For many others, they don't help at all, because they can distort the truth, exaggerate the facts, and issue alerts that on many occasions are unjustified..
"We know all the journalists, we are familiar with you all, we talk to you all, we reached a certain agreement about what and how you are to clearly and accurately broadcast information received, not to exaggerate the facts".
For many others, they don't help at all, because they can distort the truth, exaggerate the facts, and issue alerts that on many occasions are unjustified... in fact, when they say something, next day the reporters from the Tamaulipas Coordination Groupp (Grupo de Coordinación de Tamaulipas) expose them as wrong.
I'm just exaggerating the fact that Nigerians are very academically minded and we want our kids to do well.
In my work as a criminal defense attorney, I leave nearly every courtroom experience feeling that the police have lied or at least exaggerated the facts.
Their "heroic age" of martyrs, or "Era of Martyrs", was held to begin with Diocletian's accession to the emperorship in 284, rather than 303, when persecutions actually began; they fabricated a large number of martyrs' tales (indeed, most surviving martyrs' tales are forgeries), exaggerated the facts in others, and embroidered true accounts with miraculous details.
