ballyhoo

“The noble art of ballyhoo, which had flourished so successfully in the nineteen-twenties, had lost something of its vigor,” he mourns.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

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

Just think of all of the ballyhoo and bragging that Los Angeles’ 19th century promotional machine contrived: Come to Southern California!

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2022

“That was one of the places that my father used to stand outside in his outfit to ballyhoo all these movies,” she recalled.

From New York Times ● Mar. 4, 2022

It would be mean to disturb Gus, she reflected, for he loved poker better than anything except ballyhoo, and there was no real reason why she should not walk to the carnival grounds alone.

From Girl Alone by Anne Austin

“Transformers: Rise of the Beasts,” a goofy seventh installment that rattles along well enough until the wheels fall off, ballyhoos an evolution: a biomechanical gorilla who calls himself Optimus Primal.

From New York Times ● Jun. 8, 2023

Newspaper editors are not as a rule fond of pressagents, but Dexter Fellows is a pressagent extraordinary, and he ballyhoos the most widely beloved of U. S. businesses.

From Time Magazine Archive

He places donors' names conspicuously beneath the paintings, and ballyhoos their gifts through his newspaper chain.

From Time Magazine Archive

Hudson introduces a snappy, new low-price six, the Traveler, ballyhoos its independent front wheel suspension with centre point steering.

From Time Magazine Archive

He's after a school of ballyhoos or mossbunkers ….

From Black Caesar's Clan : a Florida Mystery Story by Albert Payson Terhune

A ballyhooed project will cost about $700,000 per apartment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

Soccer’s much ballyhooed “golden generation,” it was a performance that hardly shone and a sign that whatever progress the federation has made over the past two decades hasn’t gone as far as hoped.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

Are the company’s new ballyhooed protections up for the task of keeping kids safe?

From Slate ● May 17, 2026

Tens of thousands of people are now making their way to New York City’s Times Square to participate in the ballyhooed New Year’s Eve ball-drop event and mark the start of 2026.

From MarketWatch ● Dec. 31, 2025

And all of the ballyhooed techniques used by the armies of market researchers at CBS utterly failed to distinguish between these two very different emotions.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell

This was the only article I found ballyhooing that nearly half of us drink white wine at room temperature.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 21, 2022

Then forward to Samuel Bowles, now-forgotten editor of Massachusetts’s Springfield Republican, whom Drabelle credits with salvaging, then ballyhooing Olmsted’s lost recommendations.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 28, 2021

Mr. Weissmann in 2003 brought charges against executives for ballyhooing the development of internet products to drive up the share price and make an insider stock killing.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 22, 2017

Still, NBC is ballyhooing the season’s kickoff game of Kansas City at New England as the 200th regular-season telecast in its “Sunday Night Football” package.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 1, 2017

It was Darry Drew up on a stool ballyhooing for the soft drink booth.

From The Campfire Girls of Roselawn Or, a Strange Message from the Air by Margaret Penrose