hyperbole

The Supreme Court has held that true threats aren’t protected by the Constitution, but political hyperbole is—noting in a landmark decision that the “language of the political arena” is often “vituperative, abusive, and inexact.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

It is not hyperbole to say that Ford turns in the performance of his career, assisted by Michael J. Fox’s guest star appearances and the sensitive work of his castmates.

From Salon ● Jun. 20, 2026

It isn’t hyperbole to suggest that the SpaceX initial public offering is one of the most eagerly awaited stock market debuts in history.

From Barron's ● Jun. 1, 2026

To unaffiliated scientists, Colossal’s talk of de-extincting long-gone species is hyperbole: hopelessly premature and consistently oversold.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2026

Every writer faces the challenge of finding a superlative in the English word-hoard that has not been inflated by hyperbole and overuse.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

Critics thumbed thesauruses for hyperboles to rhapsodize about her pyrotechnics.

From New York Times ● Jan. 30, 2024

Our efforts to be informed were dominated by attention to the biggest headlines reporting the latest hyperboles and gutter developments, with little attention to the discussion of issues, positions or facts.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 17, 2017

Still, there was a lingering sense that the efforts were too little, too late, as their countrymen and -women carried on with the characteristic superlatives, hyperboles and extermination-related coinages.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 17, 2017

Maybe the surprise is increased by a bad choice of hyperboles in the first place.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 14, 2012

In Love’s Labour’s Lost, Shakespeare has Berowne complain, “Taffeta phrases, silken terms precise, / Three-piled hyperboles, spruce affectation, / Figures pedantical; these summer flies / Have blown me full of maggot ostentation.”

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith