puffery
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Is our celebration of a measly 250 years of continuous operation another example of American puffery?
From Slate ● Jul. 4, 2026
Ms. Coppola’s approach doesn’t even rise to the level of the journalism in Vogue, which itself gets lots of puffery.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 2026
Customers are expected to be smart enough to recognise that ads will often contain a certain amount of "puffery".
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2023
Of course, this kind of puffery was pumped by real estate interests, railroads, newspapers, movie studios and politicians.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2023
If a fool, no amount of newspaper or magazine puffery can set you up; and if you are useful, no amount of newspaper or magazine detraction can keep you down.
From Around The Tea-Table by T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt) Talmage
Yet it had evidently failed to impress the public of this town, their experiences probably having rendered them sceptical of such pufferies, for the house was miserably bad.
From The Library Magazine of Select Foreign Literature All volumes by Various
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