puffery
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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
Tesla’s defense in the shareholder case included the argument that statements like those were “mere corporate puffery, vague statements of optimism.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2025
Customers are expected to be smart enough to recognise that ads will often contain a certain amount of "puffery".
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2023
Gorsuch was trolling here, wielding Norfolk Southern’s own promotional puffery against it.
From Slate ● Jun. 28, 2023
And yet they say these latter days of ours are distinguished above all else by shameless puffery!
From The Portsmouth Road and Its Tributaries To-Day and in Days of Old by Harper, Charles G. (Charles George)
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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