overqualified
adjective
over·qual·i·fied
ˌō-vər-ˈkwä-lə-ˌfīd 
: having more education, training, or experience than a job calls for
Examples of overqualified in a Sentence
They didn't hire her because she was overqualified for the job.
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However, grads might have better luck pivoting into trade jobs and making peace with being overqualified and in debt than pining for the dream corporate job.
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Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 9 July 2024
There aren’t ice caves near the villages where her body was discovered, but luckily Ennis High employs the most overqualified geology teacher the public-education system could buy.
—Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 4 Feb. 2024
In fact, Fleming was worldly to a degree and, if anything, overqualified to write spy novels.
—James Parker, The Atlantic, 12 Feb. 2024
Naturally, things are aided by the participation of overqualified guest star Hugh Laurie voicing the ship's hunky cook whose life raft rescue by the second-honeymooning Homer and Marge kicks off the web of murderous suspicion and occasional flare gun murder.
—Dennis Perkins, EW.com, 24 Nov. 2023
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Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 9 July 2024
There aren’t ice caves near the villages where her body was discovered, but luckily Ennis High employs the most overqualified geology teacher the public-education system could buy.
—Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 4 Feb. 2024
In fact, Fleming was worldly to a degree and, if anything, overqualified to write spy novels.
—James Parker, The Atlantic, 12 Feb. 2024
Naturally, things are aided by the participation of overqualified guest star Hugh Laurie voicing the ship's hunky cook whose life raft rescue by the second-honeymooning Homer and Marge kicks off the web of murderous suspicion and occasional flare gun murder.
—Dennis Perkins, EW.com, 24 Nov. 2023
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“Overqualified.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/overqualified. Accessed 5 Oct. 2024.
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