hyperbole
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Chris Watling, chief market strategist at the London-based research boutique Longview Economics, does not admit to using newsstand hyperbole as a market indicator.
From MarketWatch β Sep. 4, 2026
At times Andrew Tate has also exaggerated and used hyperbole for "comedic effect" with no intention to be taken seriously, the submission argues.
From BBC β Aug. 25, 2026
The Supreme Court has held that true threats aren’t protected by the Constitution, but political hyperbole is—noting in a landmark decision that the “language of the political arena” is often “vituperative, abusive, and inexact.”
From The Wall Street Journal β Aug. 4, 2026
HUD dismissed that claim as “an exercise in rhetoric, speculation, and dramatic hyperbole, not law.”
From Los Angeles Times β Jul. 24, 2026
Although less given to hyperbole than Washington, Du Bois saw Durham in essentially the same positive light after visiting there less than a decade later.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
The fact remains that the Babe’s exploits, on and off the field, were sufficient to herniate the strongest hyperboles.
From New York Times β Oct. 21, 2021
Our efforts to be informed were dominated by attention to the biggest headlines reporting the latest hyperboles and gutter developments, with little attention to the discussion of issues, positions or facts.
From Washington Post β Jan. 17, 2017
Still, there was a lingering sense that the efforts were too little, too late, as their countrymen and -women carried on with the characteristic superlatives, hyperboles and extermination-related coinages.
From The Guardian β Jan. 17, 2017
Maybe the surprise is increased by a bad choice of hyperboles in the first place.
From Scientific American β Sep. 14, 2012
In Love’s Labour’s Lost, Shakespeare has Berowne complain, “Taffeta phrases, silken terms precise, / Three-piled hyperboles, spruce affectation, / Figures pedantical; these summer flies / Have blown me full of maggot ostentation.”
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
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