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ballyhoo

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


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“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

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

While Texas and Florida officials ballyhoo their border tightening efforts, no major immigration legislation has emerged this year in Arizona, where some of the nation’s toughest laws targeting immigrants have been devised.

From Seattle Times Mar. 17, 2023

Barely a decade ago, the New York men’s wear presentations merited their own dedicated week with all the attendant ballyhoo, parties, corporate sponsorships and street-style photographers trawling for Instagram fodder.

From New York Times Feb. 14, 2022

Well, you fall for the ballyhoo and come over to have your fling—and then you find that Paris is largely bunk.

From Europe After 8:15 by Benton, Thomas H.

“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

Press Agent Robinet de Clery ballyhoos the Union as a more universal institution than the League, because Japan and the U. S., League nonmembers, and totalitarian Italy which finds the League distasteful, regularly send delegates.

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

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 Cobb, Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury)

Meanwhile, the ballyhooed metaverse—or something equivalent to an all-encompassing virtual world—could bring more-stunning changes.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 12, 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

It was Darry Drew up on a stool ballyhooing for the soft drink booth.

From The Campfire Girls of Roselawn Or, a Strange Message from the Air by Penrose, Margaret




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