hyperbolically
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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As adjectives go, “Orwellian” tends to be prematurely invoked — and hyperbolically, if often in good faith.
From Salon ● Mar. 18, 2025
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
I don’t think it ruins a book, but what he was saying hyperbolically was you’ve gotta get it right, and if you don’t, you interrupt the dream of the novel.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 24, 2023
Later he tells his father, only slightly hyperbolically, “There’s no point in school. Everything will be dead before I get to tenth grade.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2021
His ‘spirit,’ Shakespeare hyperbolically declared, had been ‘by spirits taught to write p. 132above a mortal pitch,’ and ‘an affable familiar ghost’ nightly gulled him with intelligence.
From A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles by Sir Sidney Lee
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