ballyhooing

present participle of ballyhoo

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ballyhooing
Verb
  • China has been advertising plans to land Taikonauts — or Chinese astronauts — on the lunar surface for the first time by 2030, competing with NASA’s plan to return its own astronauts to the moon’s surface as soon as mid-2027.
    Andrew Freedman, CNN Money, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Freyne does a lot with a modest budget, finding smart ways to show us fantastical things — memories playing out as if dioramas at the Natural History Museum, a vast expo hall filled with stalls advertising various paradises — on an economical scale.
    Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • However, the president’s criticism of mail-in ballots could risk disrupting the inroads Republicans made with voters last cycle, with the party spending millions promoting mail-in ballots ahead of the 2024 election.
    Hailey Bullis, The Washington Examiner, 11 Sep. 2025
  • It was created with the intention of promoting AI fluency and a future-ready, AI-confident workforce.
    Malana VanTyler, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Bungie took the rare step of doing an emergency buff live patch last night after announcing it in the TWAB to try to fix/improve The Portal and loot systems.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
  • This is not Chiu, who enthusiastically takes part in the process, sometimes even announcing purchases for the Crocker on social media.
    Graham Womack, Sacbee.com, 13 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • But Robert Bilkie, CEO of Sigma Investment Counselors in Northville, Michigan, said investors who reacted to April’s weakness by selling stocks would be significantly less wealthy today.
    Susan Tompor, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2025
  • But for Allen-Green and other community members supporting the project, a major preoccupation this year remains selling the three schools to more families in the neighborhood.
    Mila Koumpilova, ProPublica, 9 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • His 2023 paper trumpeting the dangers of acetaminophen has been cited a mere 11 times, according to Google Scholar.
    Tom Bartlett, The Atlantic, 9 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • With flicker free and low blue light technologies, KTC is touting the H27P3 for reducing eye strain, especially during extended work sessions.
    Mark Sparrow, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2025
  • More than $18 billion has flooded into more than 200 biotechnology companies touting AI to expedite development, with 75 drugs or vaccines entering clinical trials, according to Boston Consulting Group.
    Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 12 Sep. 2025
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“Ballyhooing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ballyhooing. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.

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