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Recent Examples of overdue McNeil-Warren is overdue for more attention. Dane Brugler, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2025 Several months of litigation later, White managed to overturn her eviction notice and avoid roughly $55,000 in penalties and more than $18,000 in overdue rent. Angela Yang, NBC news, 8 Oct. 2025 Higher education is overdue for a course correction. Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 7 Oct. 2025 The release of these records were overdue in her opinion as speculation swirled around the case, including some asking whether Wang was targeted for being Chinese. Cate Charron, IndyStar, 7 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for overdue
Recent Examples of Synonyms for overdue
Adjective
  • How to Protect Your Luggage From Bed Bugs From delayed flights to lost luggage, travel is already anxiety-inducing enough without adding these pervasive pests to the mix.
    Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Sunday saw a delayed start and revamped schedule after a storm caused a shelter in place to be issued.
    Kirby Adams, Louisville Courier Journal, 22 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Isleton must repay $195,000 to the Employment Development Department for its unpaid taxes, penalties, and interest accrued from June 2017 to September 2013.
    Emma Hall, Sacbee.com, 7 Oct. 2025
  • As a result of the funding lapse, thousands of federal employees have been placed on unpaid leave.
    Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 7 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • On Sunday, a 15% chance of flash flooding from excessive rainfall exists along the coast from Ocean City, Maryland to Cape Cod.
    Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 11 Oct. 2025
  • The problem arises when excessive dust, dirt, and hair accumulate around the coils, preventing them from performing their job adequately.
    Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • China, meanwhile, is living with the long shadow of its one-child policy, which was eased to a two-child rule in 2016 and then to a three-child policy in 2021 in a belated push to boost births.
    Micah McCartney, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Joy speaks at length about growing up in a culturally sophisticated yet oppressive family and holding her artistic temperament in check, before achieving a belated liberation.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Has an outstanding technical skill set.
    Tim Spiers, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Cinematographer Carlos Catalan has worked on Broadchurch, Dope Girls, Murdered by My Boyfriend and Killing Eve, and production designer Dominic Hyman on The Witcher, The Last Kingdom and earned an Emmy for outstanding art direction on HBO’s The Pacific.
    Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 7 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The Falcons sacked McCarthy six times on the way to a 22-6 win, but playing against Allen will present a much steeper challenge.
    Josh Kendall, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Want access to even steeper discounts?
    Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 9 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Others sell delinquent accounts to debt-collection companies.
    Daniel de Visé, USA Today, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Foreclosure would become nonviable as a means of tax collection — with no readily apparent alternative means for timely collection of the delinquent revenue.
    Todd Spangler, Freep.com, 3 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The bank estimates that two-thirds of the population are living in extreme poverty — less than $3 a day.
    Preeti Jha, semafor.com, 8 Oct. 2025
  • The ocean anomaly has also been associated with extreme weather events, including droughts; warmer ocean temperatures can also generally help hurricanes develop more rapidly, and exacerbate fires, says Pastelok.
    Simmone Shah, Time, 8 Oct. 2025

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“Overdue.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overdue. Accessed 13 Oct. 2025.

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