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For Barcelona, a chance to complete a remarkable renewal, a chance to show their critics yet again that rumours about their death truly were exaggerated.

He also made a number of exaggerated and unsupported claims during the event.

People generally use “Kafkaesque” as an exaggerated metaphor, perhaps to describe the runaround you get from an insurance company or an especially aggravating trip to the DMV.

He also denied that the scale of the challenge is being exaggerated to push through reform, as staff unions have claimed.

"We have turned a new page with the slogan of peace, coexistence, moving beyond the bitterness of the past," he said, adding that the UN's casualty figures were "exaggerated".