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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
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His fingerprints are all over the 21st-century Big Inventive Novel, with its sentient raindrops (Elif Shafak), its melodramatic families (Kiran Desai), its metamorphoses of race (Mohsin Hamid) and history (Marlon James).—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
6 Nov. 2025
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There are elements of quite graphic violence, then there’s also quite melodramatic moments, and then there’s also quite funny moments, and then there’s obviously the games themselves.—
Abid Rahman,
HollywoodReporter,
2 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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The Christos honored their promise by gifting me with a wonderful collage in addition to my one-dollar paycheck.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 Nov. 2025
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That scene was so incredibly awkward… and wonderful.—
Dalton Ross,
Entertainment Weekly,
6 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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Shirley Valentine serves as an escape for those who envision a life more exciting, a fact to which Collins attributed its success.—
Lisa de los Reyes,
HollywoodReporter,
6 Nov. 2025
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Surveying the broader landscape of AI benchmarks, Mahdi said researchers and developers have many exciting avenues to explore.—
Jared Perlo,
NBC news,
6 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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Where is such a wondrous thing possible?—
Stacia Datskovska,
Footwear News,
27 Oct. 2025
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For those of us who have loved Carmen Maura since the first of her seven features with Pedro Almodóvar 45 years ago, watching her expressive face in Calle Málaga is its own wondrous reward.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
3 Oct. 2025
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Sam Martin excels early Punter Sam Martin rarely gets his due, but Sunday’s spectacular outing can’t go unnoticed.—
Charlotte Observer,
Charlotte Observer,
9 Nov. 2025
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Lemon had a career-high 161 yards through the air and Lane’s 74 included several diving snags and one spectacular one-hander in the end zone despite tight coverage.—
Mirjam Swanson,
Oc Register,
8 Nov. 2025
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Antetokounmpo delivered one of the most amazing closeout performances of all-time.—
The Athletic NBA Staff,
New York Times,
11 Nov. 2025
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And the reach of Prime Video, especially globally, is really, really amazing.—
Jennifer Maas,
Variety,
11 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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There was a top 10 team that lost, but BYU was a 10-point underdog at Texas Tech, so the Red Raiders’ convincing win wasn’t technically all that surprising.—
Dan Santaromita,
New York Times,
11 Nov. 2025
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Instead, my friend and I were greeted by a mostly calm experience, which was surprising for a Friday night in South End.—
Evan Moore
November 11,
Charlotte Observer,
11 Nov. 2025
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The guys are awesome; everybody’s been super welcoming.—
Barry Jackson,
Miami Herald,
7 Nov. 2025
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And what Moana has represented is a really awesome global embrace of Polynesian culture, our values and our qualities and our pride and our mana.—
Scott Feinberg,
HollywoodReporter,
6 Nov. 2025
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“Overdramatic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overdramatic. Accessed 15 Nov. 2025.
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