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Which of the following sentences uses hyperbole?

hyperbole

[hahy-pur-buh-lee] / haɪˈpɜr bə li /


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"It's not hyperbole to say the world wants what we have," he told AFP, calling diversification a "medium-term" strategy already paying dividends.

From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026

Chris Watling, chief market strategist at the London-based research boutique Longview Economics, does not admit to using newsstand hyperbole as a market indicator.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 4, 2026

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

Although less given to hyperbole than Washington, Du Bois saw Durham in essentially the same positive light after visiting there less than a decade later.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson

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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