overambitious

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Recent Examples of overambitious But without realistic steps, this overambitious mindset can leave you feeling burnt out. Mark Travers, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025 This sets the stage for the recurring theme of the season, with overambitious district attorney Harvey Dent (Diedrich Bader) running for mayor, putting him in conflict, but maybe also in cahoots, with Thorne. Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 30 July 2024 The company made decisions on hiring and new products last year that were overambitious, Mickos said. James Rundle, WSJ, 16 Aug. 2023 On several occasions, overambitious companies pressed even decrepit hulls back into service, such was the value and relative rarity of boats. David Reamer | Alaska History, Anchorage Daily News, 25 June 2023 Though holiday weekends have always been a bit of a gamble, crew staffing issues magnified by overambitious schedules means there’s now less slack in the system, Bob Mann, a longtime airline executive who now runs R.W. Mann & Company, an airline consulting company, said. New York Times, 1 July 2022 However, that may be overambitious. Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 23 Mar. 2022 Each new play is putatively the work of the Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society, a troupe of overambitious amateur thespians. Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2023 Many women are considered overambitious and degraded for wanting to succeed, while those same characteristics are celebrated in men. Blake Morgan, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for overambitious
Adjective
  • The Raptors have been an opportunistic franchise over the years, always looking for ways to improve themselves.
    Dan Perry, Newsweek, 31 Jan. 2025
  • But, thanks to some opportunistic goal scoring and stellar play from Swayman, the B’s scratched back to tie it before the period was out.
    Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 18 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • This upsets Slowik, who then forces the pretentious foodie to cook an impromptu dish in front of everyone.
    Randall Colburn, EW.com, 1 Feb. 2025
  • You might get confused, bored, or angry sometimes, or wonder if the exercise was unnecessarily silly or pretentious.
    Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 16 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • But Gustin, even as No. 1 on the call sheet, did not ask that the Arrowverse press pause on the ambitious idea.
    Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 11 Feb. 2025
  • Nearly 10 inches of ground clearance and torque aplenty allow the G 580 to scale a 45-degree incline and ford a depth of almost three feet—true off-road chops that let ambitious owners do more than preen at the Equinox valet.
    Robert Ross, Robb Report, 11 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • President Donald Trump is continuing his outreach to Senate Republicans -- critical to advancing his Cabinet nominees and aggressive agenda.
    Hannah Demissie, ABC News, 4 Feb. 2025
  • An aggressive strain of avian flu is hurting supply and causing prices to rise — with no relief in sight.
    Jordan Valinsky, CNN, 4 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Humans’ desire for timber and space for parking lots and shopping centers eventually proved too much for even the most industrious squirrel, and the long emigrations eventually ended.
    Christine Peterson, Vox, 23 Dec. 2024
  • Named for a particularly industrious kind of computer program that takes a long time to run, the problem is connected to some of the deepest open questions in computer science and mathematics.
    Bill Andrews, Quanta Magazine, 19 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Thankfully things didn't escalate beyond a silent tiff in this case, but what should a traveler do in a similar situation to handle a pushy fellow passenger civilly?
    Charna Flam, People.com, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Mesta and the show’s star, Ethel Merman, two loud peas in the same pushy pod, became and remained fast friends.
    Thomas Mallon, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • If the amount of delinquencies shown in the balance sheet is too large, perhaps the board is not being sufficiently diligent in the unhappy business of pursuing delinquent owners.
    Kelly G. Richardson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Feb. 2025
  • Users should be diligent about verifying any unexpected file-sharing notification that hits their inbox and remain cautious of documents prompting sensitive actions, such as logging into accounts.
    Mike Britton, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • In 2020, he was awarded South Carolina’s top honor for assertive journalism.
    Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 27 Jan. 2025
  • The film, which won big at the Golden Globes, was recently embroiled in controversy over its use of artificial intelligence in dialect, with Corbet giving an assertive defense of his performers amid the debate.
    Sandra Gonzalez, CNN, 23 Jan. 2025

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“Overambitious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overambitious. Accessed 15 Feb. 2025.

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