hyperbole
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Was it mere hyperbole to compare him favourably with Tiger Woods when he was racking up the victories on tour?
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
HUD dismissed that claim as “an exercise in rhetoric, speculation, and dramatic hyperbole, not law.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
When texting Trump, Rutte would echo the president’s own syntax and hyperbole, keeping his messages congratulatory, with staccato sentences.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
It isn’t hyperbole to suggest that the SpaceX initial public offering is one of the most eagerly awaited stock market debuts in history.
From Barron's ● Jun. 1, 2026
For safety’s sake, then, hyperbole should be used with restraint and only by those with the proper literary training.
From "The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling" by Maryrose Wood
Critics thumbed thesauruses for hyperboles to rhapsodize about her pyrotechnics.
From New York Times ● Jan. 30, 2024
Our efforts to be informed were dominated by attention to the biggest headlines reporting the latest hyperboles and gutter developments, with little attention to the discussion of issues, positions or facts.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 17, 2017
Still, there was a lingering sense that the efforts were too little, too late, as their countrymen and -women carried on with the characteristic superlatives, hyperboles and extermination-related coinages.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 17, 2017
Maybe the surprise is increased by a bad choice of hyperboles in the first place.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 14, 2012
In Love’s Labour’s Lost, Shakespeare has Berowne complain, “Taffeta phrases, silken terms precise, / Three-piled hyperboles, spruce affectation, / Figures pedantical; these summer flies / Have blown me full of maggot ostentation.”
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
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