In its June 26, 1948 issue, The New Yorker published Shirley Jackson’s unsettling story “The Lottery,” and it’s not an overstatement to say that readers freaked out.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/26/books/review/the-lottery-75th-anniversary-shirley-jackson.html

Many economists regard 3 percent, China’s official growth rate last year, as an overstatement of the true performance of the economy, which had been smothered by stringent “zero Covid” measures and spreading pandemic lockdowns.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/04/world/asia/china-xi-jinping-congress.html