ballyhoo
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“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
Los Angeles’ city fathers, so adept at ballyhoo, just hated it that the highfalutin’ town up the Arroyo Seco had thought up their big flowery promotional parade first.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2022
After so much preseason ballyhoo around the teaming of James, Davis and Westbrook, the trio managed to play in only 21 games together — and went 11-10.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 11, 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
Oh, sure—the stunt could be pure ballyhoo, not charity.
From Comet's Burial by Raymond Z. Gallun
“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
He ballyhoos his box tops in such periodicals as Contest Magazine and Contest World News.
From Time Magazine Archive
Byrd ignored invitations to much bigger and better ballyhoos.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
And now the gentlemanly orator in charge, who, after his ballyhoos, doubled as master of ceremonies and announcer of events, directed the attention of the patrons to the largest cage of the four.
From Sundry Accounts by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb
Meanwhile, the ballyhooed metaverse—or something equivalent to an all-encompassing virtual world—could bring more-stunning changes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 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
In the clip, a young woman confronts him at one of his ballyhooed “debate” appearances on college campuses.
From Salon ● Sep. 24, 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
Sally had watched them dance, enviously, between her own performances, had heard the barker ballyhooing them as: “Bybee’s Follies Girls, straight from Broadway and on their way back to join their pals in Ziegfeld’s Follies.”
From Girl Alone by Anne Austin
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