hyperbolize
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Those earlier visions hyperbolize the romance of cooking.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 23, 2022
“It is impossible to hyperbolize what John Madden meant to generations of NFL fans,” NFL Players Association spokesman George Atallah wrote on Twitter.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 28, 2021
But their aim is the same: to drag resplendent nature indoors to hyperbolize and civilize its beauty.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2018
An actor of lesser ability might hyperbolize, turn Lydia and Patti into caricatures of cultish evil and ideological zeal, but not Dowd.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 14, 2017
How often he had heard poor sufferers hyperbolize their suffering!
From Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness by Robert S. Carroll
When you discuss the hyperbolized figures in pro wrestling history, “Superstar” Billy Graham has to be in the conversation.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 2023
That's the hyperbolized version, but not by much.
From Slate ● Dec. 13, 2017
Its early stirrings are apparent in his letter to Pound: the sentences racing to match in number and variety the collections they describe, the grandiose gestures of self-deprecation, the hyperbolized confession of trifling sins.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 13, 2017
Cheney hyperbolized, hyperventilated and gave rein to hyperactive imagination — “desperation . . . cave . . . neutered” — and the audience at the normally sedate American Enterprise Institute was riled.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 8, 2015
Despite a time frame that gallops forward into 2013 and a wealth of irresistibly hyperbolized pop cultural references, “Lionel Asbo” is at heart an old-fashioned novel, earnest in its agenda.
From New York Times ● Aug. 18, 2012
Some of their most well-known bits, like “Computer Dating,” came from hyperbolizing their backgrounds, with Jerry emphasizing his Jewish roots and Anne accentuating her Irish-Catholic heritage.
From Salon ● Oct. 18, 2025
There’s less yammering and hyperbolizing, and McDonagh makes fine contrapuntal use of the landscape’s visual drama and of the chasm separating these characters.
From New York Times ● Jun. 30, 2022
The situation arouses pathos, which Leyner acknowledges before relentlessly hyperbolizing, satirizing and detonating the pathos.
From New York Times ● Jan. 19, 2021
What Diaz is hyperbolizing about -- and the alliance’s reason for being -- is what he considers an unfair subsidy for companies, such as Amazon.com Inc., that sell products over the Internet.
From BusinessWeek ● Jul. 26, 2011
Reported by Marsh Clark /Johannes burg and Roberto Suro/Washington * Reagan was hyperbolizing.
From Time Magazine Archive
