puffery
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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
The panda wins by virtue of the puffery and power grab.
From Slate ● Jul. 21, 2025
Customers are expected to be smart enough to recognise that ads will often contain a certain amount of "puffery".
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2023
Even volcanoes known for such puffery don’t make rings all the time.
From New York Times ● Mar. 21, 2023
And yet they say these latter days of ours are distinguished above all else by shameless puffery!
From The Portsmouth Road and Its Tributaries To-Day and in Days of Old by Charles G. (Charles George) Harper
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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