hyperbolically
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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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
Nightcore’s hyperbolically digital sound struck Harle and Cook as truly fresh.
From New York Times • Dec. 2, 2022
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
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 Lee, Sidney, Sir
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