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Besides, we’re talking about Downey, a city that advocates and detractors alike hyperbolically call the “Mexican Beverly Hills” for its middle-class Latino life and conservative streak.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 12, 2026

In a recent interview with Bloomberg, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo offered hyperbolically, “The politician in me thinks you’re going to literally lose every voter under 35, forever.”

From Seattle Times • Mar. 25, 2023

The article's headline, perhaps hyperbolically, suggests that because of her ability to empathize, Ardern may be "the most effective leader on the planet."

From Salon • May 10, 2020

So many clickbait headlines insist, hyperbolically, that this or that show is “everything we need right now.”

From Washington Post • May 3, 2020

No one expresses himself so hyperbolically as the jurist Ulrich Zasius of Freiburg.

From Erasmus and the Age of Reformation by Huizinga, Johan