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
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
While the internet has the tendency to hyperbolize news in order to gain traffic, the public found the news so readily believable because the act of ghosting has permeated our culture.
From Salon ● Mar. 29, 2016
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
This may be the fourth “Purge” film, but it’s the first that genuinely addresses some of the anxieties and frustrations unfolding in today’s America, albeit in its own dystopian, hyperbolized fashion.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 3, 2018
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
Both are forms of hyperbolized touch, making more of the stimulation than the stimulation alone would suggest was plausible.
From The New Yorker ● May 16, 2016
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
There’s less yammering and hyperbolizing, and McDonagh makes fine contrapuntal use of the landscape’s visual drama and of the chasm separating these characters.
From New York Times ● Jun. 30, 2022
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
Reported by Marsh Clark /Johannes burg and Roberto Suro/Washington * Reagan was hyperbolizing.
From Time Magazine Archive
