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 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 Progressivism, meanwhile, is increasingly obsessed with identity politics and the bugbears of its overeducated elite. Oren Cass, Foreign Affairs, 12 Feb. 2021 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for overeducated
Adjective
  • During the pandemic, many workers at restaurants with less enlightened owners quit their jobs, Jayaraman noted, signalling their frustration with the low and erratic pay.
    Eyal Press, New Yorker, 28 July 2025
  • To cultivate an enlightened society, higher education needs to get serious about upholding liberal values.
    Carla Norrlof, Foreign Affairs, 12 Feb. 2019
Adjective
  • The team must be skilled in rigorous experimentation to enable translation of data into meaningful insights.
    Mohit Agrawal, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
  • The company could also serve as a magnet for high skilled and high wage labor and lead to spinoff companies, the city’s presentation said.
    Harrison Mantas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • That early work lent credibility to his dire warnings that the COVID shots hadn’t been adequately tested, as perhaps did his grandfatherly beard and professorial demeanor.
    Tom Bartlett, The Atlantic, 13 June 2025
  • Noticeably out of place with his full head of gray hair, rectangular glasses and professorial demeanor, Kennedy wandered among the crowd of cops and deputies, eyes peeled for suspicious ink.
    Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2025

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“Overeducated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overeducated. Accessed 27 Aug. 2025.

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