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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
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
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
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To cultivate an enlightened society, higher education needs to get serious about upholding liberal values.—
Carla Norrlof,
Foreign Affairs,
12 Feb. 2019
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As the scholar John Ikenberry has noted, the United States’ particular brand of hegemony allowed others to benefit as well, contributing to a relatively enlightened hierarchy that was positive-sum, even if the gains were unequally distributed in Washington’s favor.—
Mira Rapp-Hooper,
Foreign Affairs,
3 Oct. 2019
Adjective
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Despite being made by skilled artisans on the Sicilian coast and designed in Sydney, the U.S. market is already one of its main drivers, its founder and interior designer Isabella Wilde said.—
Sofia Celeste,
Footwear News,
9 July 2025
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While advanced data analytics can flag some of these anomalies, a skilled negotiator with full market visibility can go deeper.—
Eric Steele,
Forbes.com,
9 July 2025
Adjective
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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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His tone can be professorial with occasional flashes of bone-dry humor.—
Matina Stevis-Gridneff,
New York Times,
26 Apr. 2025
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“Overeducated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overeducated. Accessed 13 Jul. 2025.
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