See hyperbole in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"text": "The final key to the way I promote is bravado. I play to people's fantasies. ..People want to believe that something is the biggest and the greatest and the most spectacular. I call it truthful hyperbole. It's an innocent form of exaggeration—and a very effective form of promotion.",
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\"abartıcılık\"}, {\"code\": \"uk\", \"lang\": \"Ukrainian\", \"roman\": \"hipérbola\", \"sense\": \"rhetorical device\", \"tags\": [\"feminine\"], \"word\": \"гіпе́рбола\"}, {\"code\": \"cy\", \"lang\": \"Welsh\", \"sense\": \"rhetorical device\", \"tags\": [\"feminine\"], \"word\": \"gormodiaith\"}], \"wikipedia\": [\"hyperbole\"], \"word\": \"hyperbole\"}",
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