1
: excessively large in girth : portly
2
: inflated
overblown claims
overblown rhetoric
also
: pretentious
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Adjective (2)
overblown predictions of financial calamity after the company had one bad quarter
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Nate Peterson, Denver Post, 19 May 2026
Goldman is not arguing AI’s workforce disruption is overblown.
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Still, Microsoft’s defense sparked debate over whether the password-storing issue was overblown or if the company was doing enough to protect users.
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Adjective
Kadri also added that media narratives about players facing former teams can be overblown, but in Roy’s case, there’s certainly plenty of motivation.
—Nate Peterson, Denver Post, 19 May 2026
Goldman is not arguing AI’s workforce disruption is overblown.
—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 19 May 2026
In the 2022 interview, Locorriere said any talk of bad blood between him and Sawyer — who died in 2018 at age 81 — was overblown.
—Rachel Desantis, PEOPLE, 18 May 2026
Still, Microsoft’s defense sparked debate over whether the password-storing issue was overblown or if the company was doing enough to protect users.
—Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 15 May 2026
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“Overblown.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/overblown. Accessed 20 May. 2026.
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