ballyhoo

“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

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

Of course, one doesn’t expect PR departments to ballyhoo bad news.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 28, 2022

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

At eighteen he was a side show ballyhoo; later, the manager of the side show, and, soon after, the proprietor of a second-class vaudeville house.

From The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald

“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

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

Byrd ignored invitations to much bigger and better ballyhoos.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

He's after a school of ballyhoos or mossbunkers ….

From Black Caesar's Clan : a Florida Mystery Story by Albert Payson Terhune

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

After arriving in the NFL as a ballyhooed prospect from USC, his first year was a major disappointment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 17, 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