hyperbole

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

Such hyperbole is nothing new for Trump, of course.

From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2026

That hyperbole is similar to how Silicon Valley’s techno-optimists talk about their industry.

From Salon ● Jun. 8, 2026

It isn’t hyperbole to suggest that the SpaceX initial public offering is one of the most eagerly awaited stock market debuts in history.

From Barron's ● Jun. 1, 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 ● 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