Examples of overprice in a Sentence
The store was guilty of overpricing its goods.
Everything in the store is grossly overpriced.
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And his research shows that at current valuation levels, the U.S. market is overpriced on a historical basis, given the level of corporate earnings.
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Jeff Sommer, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2024
Soon economists were warning that China’s housing market was overpriced, supply was overbuilt and its developers were overleveraged.
—Alexandra Stevenson, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2023
Hefty dealership markups certainly haven't helped the perception of EVs being overpriced, either.
—Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 28 Nov. 2023
In the meantime, consumers can take the following steps to prevent the pink tax from impacting their bottom line:
Gain an awareness of which products are overpriced.
—Becca Stanek, The Week, 8 Sep. 2023
But some of those locations may be overpriced for a successful operation.
—Steve Brown, Dallas News, 11 Aug. 2023
Despite clear warning signs, economists were slow to recognize the inflation of a housing bubble in the years leading up to the crash because most were taught that markets were too efficient to overprice an asset for a long period of time.
—Karen Dynan, Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2018
Critics called the burger overpriced for the South Korean market.
—Min Joo Kim, Washington Post, 30 June 2023
In one of its most stinging evaluations, ICER in 2021 concluded that Aduhelm, Biogen’s controversial and newly approved drug for early symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease, was 85 to 95 percent overpriced at $56,000 a year per patient.
—Jonathan Saltzman, BostonGlobe.com, 28 June 2023
Jeff Sommer, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2024
Soon economists were warning that China’s housing market was overpriced, supply was overbuilt and its developers were overleveraged.
—Alexandra Stevenson, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2023
Hefty dealership markups certainly haven't helped the perception of EVs being overpriced, either.
—Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 28 Nov. 2023
In the meantime, consumers can take the following steps to prevent the pink tax from impacting their bottom line:
Gain an awareness of which products are overpriced.
—Becca Stanek, The Week, 8 Sep. 2023
But some of those locations may be overpriced for a successful operation.
—Steve Brown, Dallas News, 11 Aug. 2023
Despite clear warning signs, economists were slow to recognize the inflation of a housing bubble in the years leading up to the crash because most were taught that markets were too efficient to overprice an asset for a long period of time.
—Karen Dynan, Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2018
Critics called the burger overpriced for the South Korean market.
—Min Joo Kim, Washington Post, 30 June 2023
In one of its most stinging evaluations, ICER in 2021 concluded that Aduhelm, Biogen’s controversial and newly approved drug for early symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease, was 85 to 95 percent overpriced at $56,000 a year per patient.
—Jonathan Saltzman, BostonGlobe.com, 28 June 2023
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overprice
verb
over·price
ˌō-vər-ˈprīs 
: to price too high
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