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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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This movie, which anchors Reef’s climactic breakthrough to his enlightened decision to stop googling himself.—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
9 Apr. 2026
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Created under the umbrella of the Shorefast Foundation, a Canadian charity Cobb cofounded with her brothers, the inn is part of a project to revitalize the island economy through enlightened tourism.—
Akash Kapur,
Travel + Leisure,
7 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Meanwhile, there’s an acute shortage of skilled tradesmen around the country.—
Emma Green,
New Yorker,
17 Apr. 2026
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Carmago, who has a degree in ethnomusicology, is a skilled jazz player who is also adept on the four-string cavaquinho.—
George Varga,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
17 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Masud Husain is a professor of neurology and cognitive neuroscience at the University of Oxford and a professorial fellow at New College, Oxford.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
14 Apr. 2026
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And Rachel Weisz is very professorial in all those gently eccentric power separates.—
Brittany Allen,
Literary Hub,
10 Apr. 2026
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“Overeducated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overeducated. Accessed 20 Apr. 2026.
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