overeducated

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Recent Examples of overeducated These weren't movements of the dispossessed, but of the downwardly mobile—overeducated and politically alienated. 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
  • But more enlightened self-interest won out.
    Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Well, certainly any enlightened agreement at the end of the day, any sustainable agreement should always be bipartisan in nature, and that's been our position.
    ABC News, ABC News, 28 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Can Skjei, who’s skilled but had a nightmare first season in Nashville, bounce back?
    Harman Dayal, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
  • But in addition to his reputation as a womanizer, Casanova was also a con man, a skilled liar who came from a family of actors and who over the course of his life manipulated and tricked countless people to maintain wealth and status.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 6 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The voice turned more professorial, clinical.
    Jon Michael Varese, The Atlantic, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Restrepo, who was wearing professorial glasses and a dark suit, went first.
    Dhruv Khullar, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025

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“Overeducated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overeducated. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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