as in to overuse
to use so much as to make less appealing seeking to capitalize on its only breakout hit, the network fatally overexposed the game show by scheduling it every night of the week

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Recent Examples of overexpose If most of your liabilities reprice simultaneously, you’re overexposed. Meelan Gupta, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025 At its peak on Sunday, more than $1 billion in crypto positions were liquidated during a 24-hour span — with over 95% coming from long bets, underscoring just how overexposed the market was heading into the weekend. Brian Evans,lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 22 June 2025 The couple’s recent red-carpet appearance with their kids at Pompeo’s Hollywood Walk of Fame Ceremony was a rare one, and I, for one, kind of love that their family life is the antithesis of overexposed. Emma Specter, Vogue, 1 May 2025 Applying a minor exposure adjustment will naturally boost the contrast between darker and lighter tones of your image, and a good result will be one where the solar disk does not appear under- or overexposed. Josh Dury, Space.com, 30 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for overexpose
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Verb
  • Annabelle has been in so many movies now, to the point of being overused (the real doll has even been suspected of paranormal activity recently).
    Dani Di Placido, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The redemption story is overused in sports, but Anisimova coming back from a double-bagel Wimbledon final defeat against Iga Świątek to beat the same player a couple of months later was extraordinary.
    The Athletic Tennis Staff, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
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  • His versions were full-blooded, with lush strings and reasonably large orchestras — and, purists alleged — vulgarizing distortions.
    BostonGlobe.com, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Oct. 2019
  • Ever since his rise to power, Trump has served as a vulgarizing agent.
    Leon Neyfakh, Slate Magazine, 2 June 2017
Verb
  • In the late 1980s while working as anchor for KLAS-TV in Las Vegas, Knapp rose to fame helping popularize the claims of UFO-lore stalwarts Bob Lazar and John Lear.
    Brett Tingley, Space.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The news highlights a movement to popularize a gesture to signal distress to passersby.
    Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025
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  • For decades, the profession has been stereotyped as a world of calculators and spreadsheets, quietly humming in the background of business.
    Jason Ma, Fortune, 7 Sep. 2025
  • But while working mom and trad wife stereotypes reign online and in popular culture, many moms fall somewhere in between those two tropes.
    Madeline Mitchell, USA Today, 31 Aug. 2025
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  • The worst part of this tax is that Illinois Democrats, in their desperation for more revenue, ended up encouraging more casual bettors to overdo it and get into financial trouble.
    The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 3 Sep. 2025
  • But the actor slips into the role flawlessly (with the help of good makeup), never overdoing it and adding a fair amount of gravitas to the constantly shifting scenery.
    Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 31 Aug. 2025
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  • The Texans were up 28-21, and Keller had exhausted all of its timeouts.
    Jordan Neal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Lula was imprisoned in 2018, but he was released in November 2019 after the Supreme Court ruled that defendants can’t be jailed before exhausting appeal options.
    Chad de Guzman, Time, 12 Sep. 2025
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  • Too often, developments of this size that pop up on virgin ground get lost to boring cookie-cutter street scaping and architecture.
    The Denver Post Editorial Board, Denver Post, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The approach is complemented by heavy use of the Estevez brothers’ childhood Super 8 movies, genre-bending DIY productions that Charlie notes often bore similarities to the movies their father was making at the time.
    Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 10 Sep. 2025

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