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hyperbole
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  • "They'll map it like Manhattan," Annie said, and the two women did not argue the hyperbole.†  (source)
  • Yet it's not hyperbole to say that millions of women and girls are actually enslaved today.†  (source)
  • I frowned at the hyperbole.†  (source)
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  • Those two words may just be hyperbole, but coming in the first two sentences of the story, they feel suggestive.†  (source)
  • It was what is said in the bower, a prelude to what will be said in the chamber; a lyrical effusion, strophe and sonnet intermingled, pleasing hyperboles of cooing, all the refinements of adoration arranged in a bouquet and exhaling a celestial perfume, an ineffable twitter of heart to heart.†  (source)
  • I rolled my eyes at the hyperbole.†  (source)
  • g./, /like greased lightning/, /as scarce as hen's teeth/; they are grotesque hyperboles, but surely not slang.†  (source)
  • None were quoted as sources, and none have since been blamed for the misleading hyperbole.†  (source)
  • In what words shall I describe this dread exploit, by what language shall I make it credible to ages to come, what eulogies are there unmeet for thee, though they be hyperboles piled on hyperboles!†  (source)
  • I'm engaging in hyperbole.†  (source)
  • Taffeta phrases, silken terms precise, Three-pil'd hyperboles, spruce affectation, Figures pedantical; these summer-flies Have blown me full of maggot ostentation: I do forswear them; and I here protest, By this white glove,—how white the hand, God knows!†  (source)
  • There were insults exchanged that would long fester, bombast and hyperbole in abundance, and moments when eloquence was brought to bear with a dramatic effect remarkable even in the Commons.†  (source)
  • In what words shall I describe this dread exploit, by what language shall I make it credible to ages to come, what eulogies are there unmeet for thee, though they be hyperboles piled on hyperboles!†  (source)
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