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Recent Examples of hyperbolize The filthy talk of collusion, of course hyperbolized by Unsocial Media, again is crawling out of the swamp. Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Mar. 2023 Yet the internet — the same force that has increased awareness of social-justice movements — has hyperbolized all entreaties to our fragmented attention spans. Lauren Oyler, New York Times, 8 May 2018 The show examines stereotypes, hyperbolizes them, then deconstructs them. Darren Franich, PEOPLE.com, 22 June 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hyperbolize
exaggerate
Verb
  • Machado also pushed back on suggestions that Venezuela’s role in drug trafficking had been exaggerated to support the argument of those calling for regime change.
    Billy Stockwell, CNN Money, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Blazy exaggerated the frayed hems that Coco Chanel loved into ragged edges by letting the cloth be overtaken slowly with tiny hanging strings of beads.
    Nathan Heller, Vogue, 14 Oct. 2025

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“Hyperbolize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hyperbolize. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.

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