ballyhoo
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While Texas and Florida officials ballyhoo their border tightening efforts, no major immigration legislation has emerged this year in Arizona, where some of the nation’s toughest laws targeting immigrants have been devised.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 17, 2023
Of course, one doesn’t expect PR departments to ballyhoo bad news.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 28, 2022
Barely a decade ago, the New York men’s wear presentations merited their own dedicated week with all the attendant ballyhoo, parties, corporate sponsorships and street-style photographers trawling for Instagram fodder.
From New York Times • Feb. 14, 2022
No. 3 Georgia, a bout that stoked ballyhoo, thudded to a dud suspense-wise Friday night.
From Washington Post • Jan. 1, 2022
At eighteen he was a side show ballyhoo; later, the manager of the side show, and, soon after, the proprietor of a second-class vaudeville house.
From The Beautiful and Damned by Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott)
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