over·hype
ˌō-vər-ˈhīp 
overhyped; overhyping
: to hype (something or someone) to an excessive degree
overhype a new product
… his surname, long synonymous with overhyped schlock …—
Patrick McGeehan
Patrick McGeehan… the extravagantly overhyped star of the soap opera …—Peter Hood
Peter Hood"You think the media is overhyping?"—Don Lemon
Don Lemon
: hype that is extravagant to an excessive degree
These visions have a sparkling appeal. But will they come true, or will they harden into garish embarrassments like the predictions for AI and neural networks? Overhype is a real danger to nascent technology.—Daniel McNeill and Paul Freiburger
Daniel McNeill and Paul FreiburgerExamples of overhype in a Sentence
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Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 27 Aug. 2025
Others dismiss it as overhyped, error-prone and untrustworthy.
—Tony Bradley, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
Teams do get overhyped, and there actually are reasons to be worried about Texas going into the new campaign.
—Matthew Schmidt, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Aug. 2025
That overinflation explains market caution, but the underlying technology isn’t overhyped.
—Dave Smith, Fortune, 20 Aug. 2025
But fans and observers at home in China are cautioning against overhyping the young star.
—Kayla Hayempour, NBC news, 4 Aug. 2025
As of June 22, Kim Cattrall is back—and not just in that deliriously overhyped And Just Like That cameo.
—Time, 22 June 2023
There isn’t much money in responsibility or safety, but there’s plenty in overhyping the technology, says Hanna, who previously worked on Google’s Ethical AI team and is now head of research at nonprofit Distributed AI Research.
—WIRED, 16 Feb. 2023
Now, many Chinese products are perfectly good products -- and made by hard-working people in factories there -- but marketers who get hold of these products to sell sometimes overhype them.
—Dallas News, 5 Jan. 2023
Simon Willis, Fortune, 7 Nov. 2022
The point is, forgive the overhype, but there’s a lot of unused hype for a couple of decades.
—Dave Hyde, Sun Sentinel, 24 Sep. 2022
The researchers believe the dismal quality of the vast majority of AI studies is directly related to the recent overhype of AI in medicine.
—Allison Whitten, Discover Magazine, 6 July 2020
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Verb
Carson Beck doesn’t want to overhype what Sunday will be for him.
—Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 27 Aug. 2025
Others dismiss it as overhyped, error-prone and untrustworthy.
—Tony Bradley, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
Teams do get overhyped, and there actually are reasons to be worried about Texas going into the new campaign.
—Matthew Schmidt, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Aug. 2025
That overinflation explains market caution, but the underlying technology isn’t overhyped.
—Dave Smith, Fortune, 20 Aug. 2025
But fans and observers at home in China are cautioning against overhyping the young star.
—Kayla Hayempour, NBC news, 4 Aug. 2025
As of June 22, Kim Cattrall is back—and not just in that deliriously overhyped And Just Like That cameo.
—Time, 22 June 2023
There isn’t much money in responsibility or safety, but there’s plenty in overhyping the technology, says Hanna, who previously worked on Google’s Ethical AI team and is now head of research at nonprofit Distributed AI Research.
—WIRED, 16 Feb. 2023
Now, many Chinese products are perfectly good products -- and made by hard-working people in factories there -- but marketers who get hold of these products to sell sometimes overhype them.
—Dallas News, 5 Jan. 2023
Noun
In part, this is a story of typical Silicon Valley overhype.
—Simon Willis, Fortune, 7 Nov. 2022
The point is, forgive the overhype, but there’s a lot of unused hype for a couple of decades.
—Dave Hyde, Sun Sentinel, 24 Sep. 2022
The researchers believe the dismal quality of the vast majority of AI studies is directly related to the recent overhype of AI in medicine.
—Allison Whitten, Discover Magazine, 6 July 2020
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“Overhype.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/overhype. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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