hyperbolically
Americanadverb
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In a recent interview with Bloomberg, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo offered hyperbolically, “The politician in me thinks you’re going to literally lose every voter under 35, forever.”
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 25, 2023
The question is, are we in the press reporting it rationally or hyperbolically?
From Salon ● Sep. 29, 2022
So many clickbait headlines insist, hyperbolically, that this or that show is “everything we need right now.”
From Washington Post ● May 3, 2020
As former Montreal Gazette columnist Michael Farber once wrote, perhaps hyperbolically but certainly plausibly, “Only two institutions truly grasp ceremony: the House of Windsor and the Montreal Canadiens.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 8, 2019
Then he maketh an oration to the audience of half-an-hour long, wherein he doth most hyperbolically extol the virtue of his drugs and confections—though many of them are very counterfeit and false.
From The Doctor in History, Literature, Folk-Lore, Etc. by Various
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