as in exaggerated
extended beyond normal or realistic bounds
overblown predictions of financial calamity after the company had one bad quarter
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Recent Examples of overblown
The SaaSpocalypse may well be overblown.
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Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 3 Mar. 2026
Many Wall Street banks, top economists and even AI CEOs consider this all to still be overblown hype, cautioning that macroeconomics 101 implies the Citrini narrative is false.
—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 28 Feb. 2026
The human-rights violations, fears about the development of weapons of mass destruction, and even the connections between Iraq and Al Qaeda, which were obviously very overblown, were utilized extensively.
—Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2026
An end to an overblown row As finicky and technical as the topic of compression ratios may be to the casual F1 fan, the furore surrounding their policing in the last two months has been a perfect example of F1 politicking.
—Luke Smith, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2026
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Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 3 Mar. 2026
Many Wall Street banks, top economists and even AI CEOs consider this all to still be overblown hype, cautioning that macroeconomics 101 implies the Citrini narrative is false.
—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 28 Feb. 2026
The human-rights violations, fears about the development of weapons of mass destruction, and even the connections between Iraq and Al Qaeda, which were obviously very overblown, were utilized extensively.
—Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2026
An end to an overblown row As finicky and technical as the topic of compression ratios may be to the casual F1 fan, the furore surrounding their policing in the last two months has been a perfect example of F1 politicking.
—Luke Smith, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for overblown
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Our setting is 1936 Chicago, but this is an exaggerated, fictional world, not ours or even Karloff’s.—
Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
4 Mar. 2026
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These findings add to a Claims Conference survey in January, which said that 9% of Irish adults believed the Holocaust was a myth, while another 17% believed the number of Jews killed had been greatly exaggerated.—
Shira Li Bartov,
Sun Sentinel,
2 Mar. 2026
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The ordinance aims to protect Santa Ana tenants from inflated or unfair rent increases that officials say can be driven by pricing tools, ones that critics argue allow landlords to artificially inflate rental prices, often working in coordination to manipulate competitive market rates.—
Mona Darwish,
Oc Register,
3 Mar. 2026
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But those are the stocks that are most inflated versus their fundamentals.—
Kevin Stankiewicz,
CNBC,
2 Mar. 2026
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