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What does hyperbole mean?

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Noun
  1. (rhetoric) Deliberate or unintentional overstatement, particularly extreme overstatement.
  2. (countable) An instance or example of such overstatement.
  3. (countable, obsolete) A hyperbola.
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I agree that media coverage of the issue too often has been laden with generalizations, hyperbole and sensational images.
All the hyperbole about how sacred the right to filibuster judges is is just bosh.
Step Into Liquid is a surfing documentary that offers a satisfactory amount of thrills within a tsunami of platitudes and hyperbole.
It is not hyperbole to say that the derivatives industry is looking increasingly like a basket case, or at the minimum a potential accident.
Stripping aside the zingers and hyperbole, you get a fairly clear picture of the respective strategies for the summer campaign.
Let us note, first of all, that hyperbole and apostrophe are the forms of language not only most agreeable to it but also most necessary.

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