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Recent Examples of overeducated
These weren't movements of the dispossessed, but of the downwardly mobile—overeducated and politically alienated.
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Jesus Mesa, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 June 2025
There’s plenty such wordplay in The Safe House, to the point that the movie can seem like a caricature of overeducated, perpetually growling Parisians shouting for social change, but too self-centered and comfortable in their bourgeois lifestyles to do anything drastic about it.
—Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Feb. 2025
The worlds of crypto and the New York Times rarely intersect, but this week Crypto Twitter snapped to attention in response to the Gray Lady’s weekly Ethicist column, which is sort of a Dear Abby for the liberal, overeducated set.
—Jeff John Roberts, Fortune Crypto, 7 Apr. 2023
At work, Hank deals with the typical absurdities of an English department populated with overeducated, underachieving whiners.
—Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 11 Mar. 2023
Milwaukee’s overeducated hipster baristas and blue-collar commercial electricians have in common?
—Luther Ray Abel, National Review, 26 Aug. 2021
Hardly anyone knows how to even find her on a map aside from her two closest friends: Eileen, an overeducated and underpaid magazine editor, and Simon, an earnestly handsome political activist five years older than them both.
—Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 23 Aug. 2021
Progressivism, meanwhile, is increasingly obsessed with identity politics and the bugbears of its overeducated elite.
—Oren Cass, Foreign Affairs, 12 Feb. 2021
Jesus Mesa, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 June 2025
There’s plenty such wordplay in The Safe House, to the point that the movie can seem like a caricature of overeducated, perpetually growling Parisians shouting for social change, but too self-centered and comfortable in their bourgeois lifestyles to do anything drastic about it.
—Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Feb. 2025
The worlds of crypto and the New York Times rarely intersect, but this week Crypto Twitter snapped to attention in response to the Gray Lady’s weekly Ethicist column, which is sort of a Dear Abby for the liberal, overeducated set.
—Jeff John Roberts, Fortune Crypto, 7 Apr. 2023
At work, Hank deals with the typical absurdities of an English department populated with overeducated, underachieving whiners.
—Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 11 Mar. 2023
Milwaukee’s overeducated hipster baristas and blue-collar commercial electricians have in common?
—Luther Ray Abel, National Review, 26 Aug. 2021
Hardly anyone knows how to even find her on a map aside from her two closest friends: Eileen, an overeducated and underpaid magazine editor, and Simon, an earnestly handsome political activist five years older than them both.
—Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 23 Aug. 2021
Progressivism, meanwhile, is increasingly obsessed with identity politics and the bugbears of its overeducated elite.
—Oren Cass, Foreign Affairs, 12 Feb. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for overeducated
Adjective
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Such expeditions can turn into a Buddhistic exercise in enlightened pointlessness.—
Alex Ross,
New Yorker,
24 Nov. 2025
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Turner’s book focuses on Stewart Brand, a Merry Prankster turned evangelist of enlightened capitalism, who once roamed from commune to commune selling back-to-the-land supplies out of his 1963 Dodge truck.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
21 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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The shift toward high-skilled gig work is a response to a volatile labor market where even professional skills aren’t enough to ensure a worker’s job security.—
Jake Angelo,
Fortune,
13 Jan. 2026
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Ensure a steady pipeline of skilled workers who are capable of navigating challenges and changing market conditions — driving innovation and maintaining organizational stability.—
Karen Hinds,
Hartford Courant,
13 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Hughes is a partner with the law firm Epstein Becker Green and a professorial lecturer in law at the George Washington University Law School.—
Richard Hughes IV,
STAT,
12 Jan. 2026
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Navarro, long rejected and unelected, made no attempt to set professorial boundaries in his new advisory role.—
Ian Parker,
New Yorker,
22 Dec. 2025
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“Overeducated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overeducated. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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