how to pronounce puffery

/ˈpʌfɚiː/

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puffery is pronounced in three syllables

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An example use of puffery in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… mastered American puffery yet this is …”

meanings of puffery

noun:

Excessive public praise.
An act of puffing.

puffery frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word puffery occurs in english on average 0.1 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2+ level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics puffery can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that puffery can be often used in the following areas:

1) communication, information, and media;