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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Julia Shapero, The Hill, 27 Nov. 2025
Maybe that overhyped players-only meeting last week was full of yells and screams.
—Paul Dehner Jr, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2025
Ahead of the 2025 season, there is no doubt that the Tar Heels were overhyped.
—Evan Massey, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Oct. 2025
The YouTuber accused Google of overhyping its hardware durability.
—Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 14 Oct. 2025
Despite the title, their intent is not to overhype the problem but instead to encourage roboticists (and robotics companies) to take security seriously, and not treat it as an afterthought.
—IEEE Spectrum, 25 Sep. 2025
Private Debt Investors That urgency stands in sharp contrast to headlines declaring that AI is overhyped.
—Don Muir, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
Carson Beck doesn’t want to overhype what Sunday will be for him.
—Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 27 Aug. 2025
That overinflation explains market caution, but the underlying technology isn’t overhyped.
—Dave Smith, Fortune, 20 Aug. 2025
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
Major players, like Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta and Oracle, have seen their stock prices slide since early November amid fears that the AI trade has been overhyped.
—Julia Shapero, The Hill, 27 Nov. 2025
Maybe that overhyped players-only meeting last week was full of yells and screams.
—Paul Dehner Jr, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2025
Ahead of the 2025 season, there is no doubt that the Tar Heels were overhyped.
—Evan Massey, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Oct. 2025
The YouTuber accused Google of overhyping its hardware durability.
—Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 14 Oct. 2025
Despite the title, their intent is not to overhype the problem but instead to encourage roboticists (and robotics companies) to take security seriously, and not treat it as an afterthought.
—IEEE Spectrum, 25 Sep. 2025
Private Debt Investors That urgency stands in sharp contrast to headlines declaring that AI is overhyped.
—Don Muir, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
Carson Beck doesn’t want to overhype what Sunday will be for him.
—Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 27 Aug. 2025
That overinflation explains market caution, but the underlying technology isn’t overhyped.
—Dave Smith, Fortune, 20 Aug. 2025
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 16 Dec. 2025.
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