hyperbole

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 ● Sep. 4, 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 ● Aug. 4, 2026

Was it mere hyperbole to compare him favourably with Tiger Woods when he was racking up the victories on tour?

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026

Notwithstanding Bill Plaschke’s tendency for hyperbole, his article on Caitlin Clark was a three-point swish from half-court.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2026

This practice of overstating the case is called hyperbole.

From "The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling" by Maryrose Wood

The fact remains that the Babe’s exploits, on and off the field, were sufficient to herniate the strongest hyperboles.

From New York Times ● 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 ● 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 ● Jan. 17, 2017

Maybe the surprise is increased by a bad choice of hyperboles in the first place.

From Scientific American ● 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