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Recent Examples of overdramatic
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
Is Huda self-absorbed, overdramatic, extremely volatile, overly obsessed with traditional gender roles, and impossible to please?
—Shannon Keating, Vulture, 19 June 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.
—Philip Galanes, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2025
An able cast including Amit Sial, Rajesh Khera, Brajesh Jha, Mrinal Dutt, and Ankita Lokhande uplifts a film that often becomes overdramatic and choppy.
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—Sweta Kaushal, Forbes, 10 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
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
Is Huda self-absorbed, overdramatic, extremely volatile, overly obsessed with traditional gender roles, and impossible to please?
—Shannon Keating, Vulture, 19 June 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.
—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.
—Philip Galanes, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2025
An able cast including Amit Sial, Rajesh Khera, Brajesh Jha, Mrinal Dutt, and Ankita Lokhande uplifts a film that often becomes overdramatic and choppy.
2.
—Sweta Kaushal, Forbes, 10 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
Adjective
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There’s an awkward mix of comic highjinks and violence, melodramatic moments, dead spots and repetition.—
Pam Kragen,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
11 Sep. 2025
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As is, the film is somehow both glancing and melodramatic, a strange and underwhelming cocktail of blasé Euro sleekness and TV-movie drama.—
Richard Lawson,
IndieWire,
7 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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For years, those on the radical left have compared wonderful Americans like Charlie to Nazis and the world’s worst mass murderers and criminals.—
Chad de Guzman,
Time,
11 Sep. 2025
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Stargazing is a wonderful pursuit that appeals to both the casual and dedicated observer, but views outside of cities are often much clearer and brighter thanks to different levels of light pollution.—
Harry Bennett,
Space.com,
11 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The Arsenals, also designed by Studio Nue veteran Shoji Kawamori, do look wondrous, though, and prove yet again that having a single mecha designer shape the aesthetic of a mecha game can make all the difference.—
Ollie Barder,
Forbes.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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Christian thinkers sometimes solved the quandary of the wondrous peoples by claiming them as descendants of Cain or Ham, writes den Hartog.—
The Editors,
JSTOR Daily,
28 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Other exciting territory in The Grand Finale involved Mary’s changing relationship with the other Crawley women.—
Anna Cafolla,
Vogue,
11 Sep. 2025
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That’s more exciting to me than last year, when James swept the fiction categories, with even the Pulitzer board overriding their fiction judges to award the big prize to Percival Everett’s novel.—
Maris Kreizman,
Literary Hub,
11 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Their 1972 European Championship-winning side had played open, expansive football, but that approach gave way to a more cautious, less spectacular approach here.—
Michael Cox,
New York Times,
14 Sep. 2025
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The crescent moon is a spectacular object in binoculars, with the terminator — the dividing line between day and night on the moon ‚— where to look for shadows and craters.—
Jamie Carter,
Forbes.com,
14 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Malleable and with a matte finish, when worked through the hair, this white paste keeps flyaways at bay, musses up the ends of short cuts, and sculpts amazing second-day texture.—
Sophia Panych,
Allure,
16 Sep. 2025
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Those guys just haulin' butt around on there will be pretty amazing to see.—
Saajan Jogia,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The position of elementary education among the least susceptible to poverty might be surprising, but elementary school teachers are scarce and in demand.—
Erik Sherman,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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The stars are out at New York Fashion Week – including some surprising additions to the front row.—
Anika Reed,
USA Today,
16 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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That rules, actually, that video is awesome.—
Paul Tassi,
Forbes.com,
13 Sep. 2025
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But the people there were awesome.—
Mitch Sherman,
New York Times,
11 Sep. 2025
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“Overdramatic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overdramatic. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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