hyperbolize
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Those earlier visions hyperbolize the romance of cooking.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 23, 2022
“It is impossible to hyperbolize what John Madden meant to generations of NFL fans,” NFL Players Association spokesman George Atallah wrote on Twitter.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 28, 2021
But their aim is the same: to drag resplendent nature indoors to hyperbolize and civilize its beauty.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2018
An actor of lesser ability might hyperbolize, turn Lydia and Patti into caricatures of cultish evil and ideological zeal, but not Dowd.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 14, 2017
How often he had heard poor sufferers hyperbolize their suffering!
From Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness by Robert S. Carroll
The small but enthusiastic crowd of about 3,200 cheered things that are normally ignored, and the feel of a close finish seemed to take on hyperbolized gravity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 2, 2021
It does not need to be hyperbolized in scare quotes.
From New York Times ● Mar. 26, 2018
That's the hyperbolized version, but not by much.
From Slate ● Dec. 13, 2017
Its early stirrings are apparent in his letter to Pound: the sentences racing to match in number and variety the collections they describe, the grandiose gestures of self-deprecation, the hyperbolized confession of trifling sins.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 13, 2017
Cheney hyperbolized, hyperventilated and gave rein to hyperactive imagination — “desperation . . . cave . . . neutered” — and the audience at the normally sedate American Enterprise Institute was riled.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 8, 2015
Some of their most well-known bits, like “Computer Dating,” came from hyperbolizing their backgrounds, with Jerry emphasizing his Jewish roots and Anne accentuating her Irish-Catholic heritage.
From Salon ● Oct. 18, 2025
The situation arouses pathos, which Leyner acknowledges before relentlessly hyperbolizing, satirizing and detonating the pathos.
From New York Times ● Jan. 19, 2021
What Diaz is hyperbolizing about -- and the alliance’s reason for being -- is what he considers an unfair subsidy for companies, such as Amazon.com Inc., that sell products over the Internet.
From BusinessWeek ● Jul. 26, 2011
As a director, Ms. Holden Jones subverts the conventions of the genre not by mocking them, but by giving them exaggerated force and scale: hyperbolizing them into oblivion.
From New York Times ● Oct. 3, 2010
Reported by Marsh Clark /Johannes burg and Roberto Suro/Washington * Reagan was hyperbolizing.
From Time Magazine Archive
