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ballyhoo

[bal-ee-hoo, bal-ee-hoo, bal-ee-hoo] / ˈbæl iˌhu, ˈbæl iˌhu, ˌbæl iˈhu /


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But for all the ballyhoo, the number of people who actually follow through with a Roth conversion is small compared with the number who hold money in tax-deferred accounts.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026

The latest ballyhoo: Tyler Austin Harper’s cover essay in the Atlantic, “Confessions of a Token Black Professor.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

But could all this ballyhoo sap interest in his work?

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2025

After so much preseason ballyhoo around the teaming of James, Davis and Westbrook, the trio managed to play in only 21 games together — and went 11-10.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 11, 2022

To be sure she will," cried Israel, joining in with the group, "old ballyhoo that she is, to be sure.

From Israel Potter by Herman Melville

“Transformers: Rise of the Beasts,” a goofy seventh installment that rattles along well enough until the wheels fall off, ballyhoos an evolution: a biomechanical gorilla who calls himself Optimus Primal.

From New York Times ● Jun. 8, 2023

Newspaper editors are not as a rule fond of pressagents, but Dexter Fellows is a pressagent extraordinary, and he ballyhoos the most widely beloved of U. S. businesses.

From Time Magazine Archive

Hudson introduces a snappy, new low-price six, the Traveler, ballyhoos its independent front wheel suspension with centre point steering.

From Time Magazine Archive

He ballyhoos his box tops in such periodicals as Contest Magazine and Contest World News.

From Time Magazine Archive

And now the gentlemanly orator in charge, who, after his ballyhoos, doubled as master of ceremonies and announcer of events, directed the attention of the patrons to the largest cage of the four.

From Sundry Accounts by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb

Are the company’s new ballyhooed protections up for the task of keeping kids safe?

From Slate ● May 17, 2026

Tens of thousands of people are now making their way to New York City’s Times Square to participate in the ballyhooed New Year’s Eve ball-drop event and mark the start of 2026.

From MarketWatch ● Dec. 31, 2025

After arriving in the NFL as a ballyhooed prospect from USC, his first year was a major disappointment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 17, 2025

In the clip, a young woman confronts him at one of his ballyhooed “debate” appearances on college campuses.

From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2025

And all of the ballyhooed techniques used by the armies of market researchers at CBS utterly failed to distinguish between these two very different emotions.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell

This was the only article I found ballyhooing that nearly half of us drink white wine at room temperature.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 21, 2022

Then forward to Samuel Bowles, now-forgotten editor of Massachusetts’s Springfield Republican, whom Drabelle credits with salvaging, then ballyhooing Olmsted’s lost recommendations.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 28, 2021

Mr. Weissmann in 2003 brought charges against executives for ballyhooing the development of internet products to drive up the share price and make an insider stock killing.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 22, 2017

Still, NBC is ballyhooing the season’s kickoff game of Kansas City at New England as the 200th regular-season telecast in its “Sunday Night Football” package.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 1, 2017

"That boy Paul's worth all these ballyhooing highbrows put together," he muttered; and, "I'd like to get away from—everything."

From Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis


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