hyperbolic
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This sports documentary series often veers toward sensationalistic or at least hyperbolic stories, but this episode largely avoids that trap.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
Burden’s words leapt from the page to hyperbolic social mythmaking of near financial ruin at the hands of a dastardly husband.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 2026
Because of its strong structural anisotropy, MoOCl2 functions as a natural hyperbolic medium.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 1, 2026
Piker addressed it at the time — acknowledging it as a hyperbolic critique of American foreign policy and saying he should have used more precise language.
From Salon ● May 2, 2026
What he thought was a hyperbolic exaggeration would come true all too soon.
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
Vocabulary lists containing hyperbolic
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