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If that's an integral part of any sport, I'd have to answer, yes, I do object to it--the brain damage part was what they call "hyberbole", I think.
I hope you signed your organ donor card. Angry Professor 2009
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No, that's just "hyberbole," a fairly common rhetorical technique.
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No, that's just "hyberbole," a fairly common rhetorical technique.
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I personally wouldn't make the blanket statement that he doesn't care about the city, but I do think it's appropriate as hyberbole 'on this forum.'
McGinn’s Budget Briefing: Gloom, Doom, and Reorganization « PubliCola 2010
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To say it's unheard of is not hyberbole in this case, said Ambrosio E.
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You are guilty, in addition to hyberbole, of two logical fallacies: the straw man argument and the ad hominem argument.
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Its yum-factor defies hyberbole: just read the recipe.
The Hangover Helper Steve Garbarino 2010
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It is precisely this sort of hysterical hyberbole from the Right that has undermined public support for the "war on terrorism".
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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Volokh: I was giving Mr. Potash the benefit of the doubt that he was writing with a little hyberbole in his letter to make a point on violent hate crimes.
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I know you did not engage in namecalling, but you can push ideas without pushing edges of hyberbole.
Do New Hampshire Vote Count Questions Harbinger Super Tuesday Vote Theft Disaster? 2008
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