It was a hyperbolic announcement of the ascendancy of the black athlete in pro basketball.
His friend James Madison cautioned it was too long (73 manuscript pages) and hyperbolic.
So too goes the absurdly hyperbolic debate over allowing hydraulic fracturing in New York State.
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When push comes to shove, operators will pay hyperbolic prices to keep a reactor humming.
Like much of today's campaign talk, the accusation was hyperbolic, verging on the demagogic.
You can dismiss this as hyperbolic or over-the-top, but it is what it is.
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That may have been a tad hyperbolic, but coming up with answers was in no way simple.
Instead, we're left with hyperbolic review headlines that declare the place the best thing since free shampoo.
At least no one in living memory can remember them doing so (slightly hyperbolic but not much).
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Moreover, it was passed despite there being very little scientific support for the more hyperbolic claims by environmentalists.
This suggests that hyperbolic temporal discounting may be causing us to save 30% less than we otherwise would be.
Hyperbolic statements like the one above are at least part of the explanation.
At CES, AMD will be showing its SurRoundHouse, a hyperbolic demonstration of just how immersive computing output can be.
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That's hyperbolic, and no one is suggesting it, but it shows that this is really a personal, and individual decision.
Consistent with that hyperbolic rhetoric, the President began his administration by promising to close the detention camp within a year.
Discussions on countless message boards and online forums are even more hyperbolic concerning the importance of the clock speed comparison.
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That figure seems hyperbolic, but the Olympics do command a gigantic audience.
It is not hyperbolic to say RockMelt is reimagining the browser experience.
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It's just that Nokia may have shot itself in the foot, succumbing to the hazards of hyperbolic quicksand far ahead of launch day.
What may have seemed like a hyperbolic theoretical possibility at the time has now been embraced, at least by several Federal Appeals court judges.
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All of which makes your opening comment about sugar being something we need to shun at best hyperbolic and, as science, rather hard to swallow.
Of course the health bill also generated phony and hyperbolic responses.
But given the size of the oil market, capturing even a tiny niche can represent hyperbolic growth potential for an entrant with a true drop-in molecule.
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But as the industry alights on grievances, both real and hyperbolic, the political class as a whole could discover that the brokering has only just begun.
Gurus and academics with hyperbolic declarations, widespread circulation of case studies with outlier results, excessive rhetoric, superficial implementations, and as I argued earlier, monopolization of technology.
Unfortunately, humans tend to unconsciously use hyperbolic discounting the tendency to inappropriately value future events or outcomes and must often be coaxed towards desirable behavior.
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From a low of 5 million barrels per day in 2008 output has shot up in a hyperbolic curve to 7 million bpd as of last week.
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