The phrase "avoiding hyperbole" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing the importance of being realistic or moderate in descriptions or statements, particularly in writing or speech.
Example: "In order to maintain credibility, the author focused on avoiding hyperbole in their analysis of the situation."
Alternatives: "steering clear of exaggeration" or "eschewing overstatement".
The ad takes a relatively straightforward approach, avoiding hyperbole or over-the-top negativity.
"In this case, those general recommendations were things like being aware that teenagers are intelligent and have access to a lot of information, so campaign approaches should respect them and give them credit by avoiding hyperbole," the statement said.
It's possible that the warnings they do include, some of which are echoed by drug users across the Internet, are taken more seriously as the result of being on Erowid, given its reputation for avoiding hyperbole.
Directors of the Institute for Fiscal Studies normally avoid hyperbole.
After Ben Stokes's performance at Lord's it is hard to avoid hyperbole.
Usually I am rather conservative in my practice and make every effort to avoid hyperbole.
A judicious author, Cohan avoids hyperbole in "Money and Power," a definitive account of the most profitable and influential investment bank of the modern era.
And it will still avoid hyperbole and sensation, he said, but it will focus "less on being the show of record in terms of what's happening".
It avoids hyperbole -- for instance, sidestepping the implication that the Enron strategies brought on the power crisis -- while simultaneously laying out evidence of why the strategies would be attractive to traders.
That doesn't make the alternative strategies of cement protein and isopeptide bond less interesting – but it is important to avoid hyperbole based on intuitive macroscopic analogies.
But he deserves great credit for the tone and quality of his opposition, as Alastair Campbell says, avoiding the hyperbole of "lies" and "war crimes".
