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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 noble art of ballyhoo, which had flourished so successfully in the nineteen-twenties, had lost something of its vigor,” he mourns.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

For all the ballyhoo about having the most skiable acreage in the U.S.,

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 10, 2024

Curiously, there seemed to be no VIP or movie star ballyhoo; instead, as The Times wrote, the inaugural passengers on the north-to-south trip were 150 L.A.-area schoolkids.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2023

It was already a little old to Sally—the spieler’s ballyhoo.

From Girl Alone by Anne Austin

“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

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 himself as "a genie of journalistic paste jars, a fantastic flower nurtured in a pot of printer's ink, a product of the freedom of the press."

From Time Magazine Archive

He places donors' names conspicuously beneath the paintings, and ballyhoos their gifts through his newspaper chain.

From Time Magazine Archive

An expression in our faces as we drift by the fastidious ballyhoos of the shop windows.

From A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago by Ben Hecht

A ballyhooed project will cost about $700,000 per apartment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

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

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

“Bet you wouldn’t let me put any of that glass you’re eatin’ in my coffee,” he guffawed to the ostrich man whom Gus, the barker, was ballyhooing at the moment.

From Girl Alone by Anne Austin


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