How to Use hyperbolic in a Sentence
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These types of hyperbolic claims, made up out of whole cloth, stoke fears.
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John E. Jones Iii,
The Conversation,
22 Apr. 2026
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If this sounds hyperbolic, please, just go watch the movie.
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Paul Tassi,
Forbes.com,
16 May 2026
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That may have been slightly hyperbolic, but not by much.
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Jim Barnes,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
17 June 2026
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As hyperbolic as that may sound.
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Joe Rexrode,
New York Times,
11 Jan. 2026
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In most cases, that might sound clichéd or hyperbolic.
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Tim Rohan,
NBC news,
5 Feb. 2026
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Declaring games must-wins may be a bit hyperbolic at this stage of the season.
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Steve Conroy,
Boston Herald,
22 Dec. 2025
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At the same time, at the risk of being hyperbolic… no one wanted this?
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Casey Newton,
The Verge,
26 Apr. 2023
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The acronym that serves as the title is not at all hyperbolic.
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David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
16 Feb. 2026
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There have been more pitches this year than in the last decade, to be slightly hyperbolic.
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Avi Dan,
Forbes,
27 Sep. 2021
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If that sounds a little hyperbolic, well, sure.
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Chris Willman,
Variety,
26 Oct. 2025
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Adams maintained then that the comments were meant to be hyperbolic.
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Anna Kaufman,
USA Today,
2 Jan. 2026
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Sure, that’s a bit hyperbolic for a team that has lost 15 of its last 22 games.
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Dan Wiederer,
chicagotribune.com,
28 Nov. 2021
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The metaphor may sound hyperbolic, but the agenda is real.
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Greg Easley,
Air Mail,
16 Aug. 2025
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The idea that the virus could spread across these continents in just a few years is not some hyperbolic scenario.
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Lois Parshley,
Scientific American,
1 May 2018
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Tax experts have been less hyperbolic but made a similar point.
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Ramesh Ponnuru Bloomberg Opinion (tns),
Star Tribune,
15 Sep. 2020
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To me, not to be hyperbolic, but James, as a songwriter and a melody person, is one of the greats.
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Craig Jenkins,
Vulture,
5 Oct. 2022
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Even without the hyperbolic language, the line of attack is laughable.
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Bylila MacLellan,
Fortune,
27 June 2023
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Not to be hyperbolic here, but a Beni Rugs sample sale never happens.
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Julia Harrison,
Architectural Digest,
1 Dec. 2025
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On the surface, a statement such as this might sound hyperbolic, even New Agey in its triteness.
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Seth Combs,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
22 Oct. 2023
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That's not at all hyperbolic, considering the back-and-forth, chaotic nature of the game.
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Michael Hurley,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Sep. 2025
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Concerns are wide-ranging, fervent and, in some cases, run hyperbolic.
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USA TODAY,
28 Jan. 2024
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The governor used the hyperbolic phrase as did the foundation.
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Michael Adno,
Rolling Stone,
3 Mar. 2026
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Wallace understands that such a statement might sound hyperbolic now.
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Alex Zietlow,
Charlotte Observer,
2 Jan. 2026
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There were men in skirt suits, men in hot pants, and the rapper Offset in a trenchcoat of hyperbolic proportions.
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Ana Karina Zatarain,
New Yorker,
19 Sep. 2025
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Its hyperbolic orbit tells us that it is not gravitationally bound to the sun and is just passing through.
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Andrew Jones,
Space.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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That’s a bit hyperbolic considering the Suns are in the playoffs for the first time in 11 years.
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Kent Somers,
The Arizona Republic,
22 May 2021
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Like the oratory, the monument to Lee was hyperbolic—in this case, in scale.
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Carolina A. Miranda,
The New York Review of Books,
27 Apr. 2022
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But the risks that have been pushed about vaccines are just so hyperbolic compared with the benefits of vaccinating.
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Kristen Jordan Shamus,
Freep.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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In some cases, the chatbot slung crude, hyperbolic and juvenile insults.
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Jeremy Kahn,
Fortune,
21 Feb. 2023
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High-tech investing is predisposed to take even clearly hyperbolic projections as part of the game.
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Michael Hiltzik,
Los Angeles Times,
3 Jan. 2022
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