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- verb Present participle of
hyperbolize .
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Examples
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Their tendency to be hysterical about things that hadn't even happened -- never did, in fact -- leads me to believe that I do share something with Conservatives -- a disgust with the reactionary "hyperbolizing" talking heads who pass for journalists in this country.
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It is "not hyperbolizing to suggest that Congress could do almost anything it wanted," he writes.
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For years his blustering and hyperbolizing have discouraged me from reading any of the writers he ostensibly champions.
Narrative Strategies 2009
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I was just hyperbolizing the article's point about bike routes needing to take women into account and poking fun at a stereotype.
Cheap and Easy: The Fundamental Problem of Cycling BikeSnobNYC 2009
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In case your indignation is sincere, I just wanted to reassure you that I'm simply hyperbolizing my disdain for the Y-Foil for literary effect.
Laissez-Fairing: Rules vs. Aerodynamics BikeSnobNYC 2009
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Germans have long been famous for lamenting, whining and hyperbolizing over their plight, real or imagined.
BAD TO WORSE 2007
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When I say journalists root for spectacles of blood and death I'm hyperbolizing, but only a bit, and I'm not accusing them of being heartless or inhuman.
To crime! 2005
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When I say journalists root for spectacles of blood and death I'm hyperbolizing, but only a bit, and I'm not accusing them of being heartless or inhuman.
Lance Mannion: 2005
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And Dick Vitale, not to be confused with Dick Button, would have been hyperbolizing his every move, baby.
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What Diaz is hyperbolizing about -- and the alliance's reason for being -- is what he considers an unfair subsidy for companies, such as Amazon.com Inc., that sell products over the Internet.
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