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EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Rick said, with a touch of hyperbole , that it was the best movie he'd ever seen.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Buried somewhere in all that hyperbole is a good deal of truth.
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It is only slight hyperbole to say that Roy Disney averted a cultural tragedy.
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One might forgive the hyperbole in a politician but it is less easy to take from academic or journalistic critics.
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Rick Perry, the Texas commissioner of agriculture, is a rancher with an aversion to hyperbole .
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She appropriated slapstick and hyperbole to the delicious purpose of lampooning the fathead who made her life miserable.
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Some cynics might dismiss such statements as cosmic hyperbole .
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Twenty-four hours until kick-off and the hyperbole was drifting out of control.