ballyhoo
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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
Just think of all of the ballyhoo and bragging that Los Angeles’ 19th century promotional machine contrived: Come to Southern California!
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2022
After so much preseason ballyhoo around the teaming of James, Davis and Westbrook, the trio managed to play in only 21 games together — and went 11-10.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 11, 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
His method, in turn, made that of the silk-lined salesman sound like the hoarse hoots of the ballyhoo man at a county fair.
From Personality Plus Some Experiences of Emma McChesney and Her Son, Jock by Edna Ferber
“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
He places donors' names conspicuously beneath the paintings, and ballyhoos their gifts through his newspaper chain.
From Time Magazine Archive
He ballyhoos his box tops in such periodicals as Contest Magazine and Contest World News.
From Time Magazine Archive
An expression in our faces as we drift by the fastidious ballyhoos of the shop windows.
From A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago by Ben Hecht
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
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 Margaret Penrose
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