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
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
The question is, are we in the press reporting it rationally or hyperbolically?
From Salon • Sep. 29, 2022
This offer, Wade added a touch hyperbolically, would “compensate him more than” the N.B.A.’s rookie minimum salary.
From New York Times • Mar. 17, 2020
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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