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
  • To cultivate an enlightened society, higher education needs to get serious about upholding liberal values.
    Carla Norrlof, Foreign Affairs, 12 Feb. 2019
  • 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
  • Sallis enters the professional ranks as a skilled guard with a smooth mid-range game, defensive versatility, room to grow as a shooter and playmaker and potential to develop in an NBA organization.
    Shane Connuck, Charlotte Observer, 27 June 2025
  • Medicaid also funds the majority of long-term care for seniors in skilled nursing facilities.
    Pia Valvassori, The Orlando Sentinel, 27 June 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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 3 Jul. 2025.

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