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Example sentences for: hyperbolic

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On the other hand, “figurative or exaggerated expression” would probably have been a simplified improvement over “metaphorical or hyperbolic expression,” which might be tough going for someone who had to look up literally to begin with.
The Jordan retirement coverage offers yet more proof that the leading untreated malady among sportswriters is hyperbolic myopia.
Freudians claim Forrester brings the thinker's hyperbolic critics down to earth, while anti-Freudians say he pulls his punches.
The case against Dowd, taken up lately by Michael Wolff in New York magazine ("she is derisive, mocking, hyperbolic, bitchy") and by Dan Kennedy in the Boston Phoenix ("Call her our most celebrated bad columnist") was most cogently laid out in a 1992 piece by Katherine Boo in the Washington Monthly . At the time, Dowd was still a reporter, following the presidential campaign after having covered the Bush and Reagan White Houses.
' (The last term seems, in both languages, a rather hyperbolic denomination for a person who travels less than two light-seconds away from his home planet.