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Recent Examples of overdramatic
There’s an idea of ‘Nollywood movies’ being quite overdramatic.
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The Editors,
Vulture,
1 Dec. 2025
So here’s a toast to the lucky couple, forever overdramatic and true.
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Rob Sheffield,
Rolling Stone,
27 Aug. 2025
Cleveland dominated the headlines shortly after the season ended thanks to the overdramatic and highly public contract dispute between the team and star pass-rusher Myles Garrett.
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Michael Gallagher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 Aug. 2025
Cutting-edge visual effects create a world of talking photorealistic animals that might as well be a nature documentary, and attention is paid to livening up the humor, with Billy Eichner’s funny, overdramatic meerkat Timon showing up everybody, including Beyoncé.
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Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
26 May 2025
His characterization of your openness to weekly visits — a perfectly reasonable concession — as a rejection of his family is unfair and overdramatic.
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Philip Galanes,
New York Times,
22 Jan. 2025
Okay, that’s probably a bit overdramatic, but the 27-year-old model did break a yearly fall beauty tradition.
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Emily Tannenbaum,
Glamour,
29 Sep. 2024
The Editors,
Vulture,
1 Dec. 2025
So here’s a toast to the lucky couple, forever overdramatic and true.
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Rob Sheffield,
Rolling Stone,
27 Aug. 2025
Cleveland dominated the headlines shortly after the season ended thanks to the overdramatic and highly public contract dispute between the team and star pass-rusher Myles Garrett.
—
Michael Gallagher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 Aug. 2025
Cutting-edge visual effects create a world of talking photorealistic animals that might as well be a nature documentary, and attention is paid to livening up the humor, with Billy Eichner’s funny, overdramatic meerkat Timon showing up everybody, including Beyoncé.
9.
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Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
26 May 2025
His characterization of your openness to weekly visits — a perfectly reasonable concession — as a rejection of his family is unfair and overdramatic.
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Philip Galanes,
New York Times,
22 Jan. 2025
Okay, that’s probably a bit overdramatic, but the 27-year-old model did break a yearly fall beauty tradition.
—
Emily Tannenbaum,
Glamour,
29 Sep. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for overdramatic
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The Chicago rapper’s conversational style gives his melodramatic struggle music a keenly personal touch.
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The movie, whose campy tone is borrowed from melodramatic after-school specials and delivered in Early’s signature deadpan, is a study in artifice.
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So many wonderful dinners with friends and nights out on the town.
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Soccer – football in much of the world – has a long and wonderful tradition of singing, whether that be in praise of their favorite players, mocking opponents (sometimes, brutally so) or simply urging their team forward.
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Not the most exciting half of soccer considering what else has gone on during the World Cup.
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Johnny is a former professional baseball player, which is exciting for Coop, who comes from a family of ball players.
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Compelling characters, breathtaking action, beautiful environments, and an array of wondrous alien creatures.
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The film follows Charlie Brown and the Peanuts gang, who go on an emotional and wondrous journey to the vibrant Big City when Snoopy runs away from home.
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Just over the state line, the neighboring cities of Gulf Shores and Orange Beach, Alabama, make up a low-key destination boasting the same white sugar-sand beaches and spectacular outdoor space as the Florida panhandle—with significantly fewer crowds.
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Even the special effects emerge as less than spectacular — especially since Jeannot Szwarc’s plodding direction affords ample time for one to sit there and figure out just how they were accomplished.
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And the locations are amazing — the shootout occurs at the fort of Sant’Andrea that nobody really knows anything about in Venice.
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Lego is amazing, and Lego Star Wars in particular.
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South Africa was runner-up in Group A, also with four points, including a surprising win over South Korea.
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The boisterousness seeps away, replaced by a surprising vulnerability.
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Brady joins bro Matthew Tkachuk, Sam Bennett, Brad Marchand, Sam Reinhart, Carter Verhaeghe and of course the return of Aleksander Barkov to lead what should be an awesome offense.
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Hearing that growl, that was bone chilling, but working with the jaguar was awesome.
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“Overdramatic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overdramatic. Accessed 1 Jul. 2026.
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