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puff piece
noun
- a newspaper article, book, public-relations film, etc., whose purpose is to praise or flatter.
puff piece
noun
- a flattering newspaper or magazine article about a person or an organization
Idioms and Phrases
An approving or flattering article, as in That was really a puff piece about the conductor, written by her cousin . The use of puff for “exaggerated praise” dates from about 1600; piece was added in the mid-1900s.Example Sentences
Madani explained that, puff pieces writing misleading summaries of their research aside, the study does not prescribe any simple remedies like turning off your camera.
At one point the original film is referred to as a "puff-piece."
Like it or not, this is a book of great consequence, not a pop-culture puff piece, which some of its deriders claim it is.
We stayed on good terms even though the magazine story was hardly a puff piece, and made considerable waves in Italy.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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