overheated
adjective
over·heat·ed
ˌō-vər-ˈhē-təd 
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: characterized by marked inflation from an increase in demand and a decrease in supply
an overheated economy
Examples of overheated in a Sentence
She worked in a stuffy, overheated office.
The discussion was getting overheated.
The market for new houses is overheated.
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This has been a common rhythm for this market, rotating day by day between narrow and broad breadth days, keeping the index from even as much as a 3% pullback since May while alternately allowing for overheated groups to cool now and then.
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Michael Santoli, CNBC, 23 Sep. 2025
Iger is threading the needle by safeguarding Disney’s brand as one that will continue to be guided by decency and respect, no matter how overheated political rhetoric becomes at times—on both sides.
—Dave Smith, Fortune, 19 Sep. 2025
Capital Keeps Flowing Into AI And Cybersecurity When asked why Glilot chose this moment to raise such a large pool of capital, Samboursky acknowledged the overheated chatter but pushed back on the idea of retreat.
—Kolawole Samuel Adebayo, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
In that case, a wheel bearing failed, overheated, and caught fire, and thus, a 38-car Norfolk Southern freight train derailed near the municipality of about 5,000 people on Feb. 3, 2023.
—Jeremy Lott, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2025
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Michael Santoli, CNBC, 23 Sep. 2025
Iger is threading the needle by safeguarding Disney’s brand as one that will continue to be guided by decency and respect, no matter how overheated political rhetoric becomes at times—on both sides.
—Dave Smith, Fortune, 19 Sep. 2025
Capital Keeps Flowing Into AI And Cybersecurity When asked why Glilot chose this moment to raise such a large pool of capital, Samboursky acknowledged the overheated chatter but pushed back on the idea of retreat.
—Kolawole Samuel Adebayo, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
In that case, a wheel bearing failed, overheated, and caught fire, and thus, a 38-car Norfolk Southern freight train derailed near the municipality of about 5,000 people on Feb. 3, 2023.
—Jeremy Lott, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2025
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“Overheated.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/overheated. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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