puffery
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Is our celebration of a measly 250 years of continuous operation another example of American puffery?
From Slate ● Jul. 4, 2026
Ms. Coppola’s approach doesn’t even rise to the level of the journalism in Vogue, which itself gets lots of puffery.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 2026
Customers are expected to be smart enough to recognise that ads will often contain a certain amount of "puffery".
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2023
Of course, this kind of puffery was pumped by real estate interests, railroads, newspapers, movie studios and politicians.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2023
If the sporting journalists perform their work of puffery with skill and care, the worship of the jockey reaches a pitch that borders on insanity.
From The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour by James Runciman
Yet it had evidently failed to impress the public of this town, their experiences probably having rendered them sceptical of such pufferies, for the house was miserably bad.
From The Library Magazine of Select Foreign Literature All volumes by Various
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