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- verb Present participle of
ballyhoo .
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Examples
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Consequently, it seems politically and ethically foolhardy for the president to vocally support nuclear power while ballyhooing its "safety."
Bob Cesca: The Obama Administration Must Abandon its Nuclear Energy Policy Bob Cesca 2011
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For all their ballyhooing about “manliness,” the American players are covered up more tightly than Victorian grandmothers, another concession to the sexaphobic holy rollers.
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Consequently, it seems politically and ethically foolhardy for the president to vocally support nuclear power while ballyhooing its "safety."
Bob Cesca: The Obama Administration Must Abandon its Nuclear Energy Policy Bob Cesca 2011
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When the mailwoman walked up Fabre's front steps, past Belle, his white cat, she delivered six glossy, full-color political fliers ballyhooing candidates up and down the ballot.
Pa. voters under assault: Ads from 3 states and stacks of mail every day Philip Rucker 2010
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Concurrently, the president has obviously been ballyhooing his tax-cut compromise with the Republicans, while commenting that the deal will create jobs -- not the tax cuts part of the deal, specifically, but the overall deal.
Bob Cesca: Are Progressives Losing Touch With Reality? Bob Cesca 2010
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Concurrently, the president has obviously been ballyhooing his tax-cut compromise with the Republicans, while commenting that the deal will create jobs -- not the tax cuts part of the deal, specifically, but the overall deal.
Bob Cesca: Are Progressives Losing Touch With Reality? Bob Cesca 2010
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Republican – Democrat – whatever – all this brick-throwing, slur-slinging, Tea Party ballyhooing is immature, ignorant, and just unbelievable.
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With no media attention or ballyhooing from the Dems, the Medicare and Medicaid Extenders Act HR 4994 was passed and signed into law by the President on December 15th.
Pearl Korn: Doctors Pulled From the Brink of a 25% Cut in Medicare Payments Pearl Korn 2010
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After much lambasting and ballyhooing, FOX agreed to keep arguing with TWC over what it charges for the cable company to carry its programming -- without pulling the shows as it had threatened to do.
FOX Did Not Pull Its Programming From TWC, Food Network Pulled From Cablevision - The Consumerist 2010
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Concurrently, the president has obviously been ballyhooing his tax-cut compromise with the Republicans, while commenting that the deal will create jobs -- not the tax cuts part of the deal, specifically, but the overall deal.
Bob Cesca: Are Progressives Losing Touch With Reality? Bob Cesca 2010
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