hyperbole
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HUD dismissed that claim as “an exercise in rhetoric, speculation, and dramatic hyperbole, not law.”
From Los Angeles Times β Jul. 24, 2026
Not long ago, the word trillionaire only appeared in The Wall Street Journal as hyperbole.
From The Wall Street Journal β Jun. 11, 2026
District Judge George Hanks Jr. tossed the suit out, noting that the statement was obvious “rhetorical hyperbole that cannot constitute defamation.”
From Salon β May 16, 2026
But the straight-talking Trippier is not one for hyperbole.
From BBC β Mar. 18, 2026
Livingston’s first task was to scrub the hyperbole from the claims that Lawrence and Edlefsen had made.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
Critics thumbed thesauruses for hyperboles to rhapsodize about her pyrotechnics.
From New York Times β 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 β 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 β Jan. 17, 2017
Maybe the surprise is increased by a bad choice of hyperboles in the first place.
From Scientific American β 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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