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It is not hyperbolic to say that lives will be changed by this World Cup final.

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Speaking as a Black historian, I don’t think it’s hyperbolic to say that the 2020s have presented arguably the greatest sustained attack against Black civil rights since the 1960s.

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The rhetoric bordered on hyperbolic, with Friedman describing the performance of the Phillies’ pitchers in historic terms.

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Oregon’s attorney general filed a lawsuit Monday alleging the president had applied a “baseless, wildly hyperbolic pretext” to send in the troops.

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“People ask, well, is ‘authoritarianism’ you being hyperbolic?”

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