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
However you engage with someone — even hyperbolically — it’s not okay for them to respond dismissively.
From Washington Post • Sep. 13, 2022
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
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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