as in to overuse
to use so much as to make less appealing seeking to capitalize on its only breakout hit, the network fatally overexposed the game show by scheduling it every night of the week

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Recent Examples of overexpose If most of your liabilities reprice simultaneously, you’re overexposed. Meelan Gupta, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025 At its peak on Sunday, more than $1 billion in crypto positions were liquidated during a 24-hour span — with over 95% coming from long bets, underscoring just how overexposed the market was heading into the weekend. Brian Evans,lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 22 June 2025 The couple’s recent red-carpet appearance with their kids at Pompeo’s Hollywood Walk of Fame Ceremony was a rare one, and I, for one, kind of love that their family life is the antithesis of overexposed. Emma Specter, Vogue, 1 May 2025 Applying a minor exposure adjustment will naturally boost the contrast between darker and lighter tones of your image, and a good result will be one where the solar disk does not appear under- or overexposed. Josh Dury, Space.com, 30 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for overexpose
Recent Examples of Synonyms for overexpose
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  • The redemption story is overused in sports, but Anisimova coming back from a double-bagel Wimbledon final defeat against Iga Świątek to beat the same player a couple of months later was extraordinary.
    The Athletic Tennis Staff, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Meanwhile, resharing others’ posts or overusing carousels significantly underperforms.
    Justin Nassiri, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
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  • His versions were full-blooded, with lush strings and reasonably large orchestras — and, purists alleged — vulgarizing distortions.
    BostonGlobe.com, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Oct. 2019
  • Ever since his rise to power, Trump has served as a vulgarizing agent.
    Leon Neyfakh, Slate Magazine, 2 June 2017
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  • The news highlights a movement to popularize a gesture to signal distress to passersby.
    Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Open innovation, popularized by Procter & Gamble’s Connect and Develop program in the late ‘90s, tapped outside partners for breakthroughs and fueled at one time over half of its new products.
    Robert B. Tucker, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
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  • But while working mom and trad wife stereotypes reign online and in popular culture, many moms fall somewhere in between those two tropes.
    Madeline Mitchell, USA Today, 31 Aug. 2025
  • These words have different meanings in the context of AAVE, some say, and using them in a way that appropriates or stereotypes certain people groups strips away the importance of the original definitions.
    Mia Thurow, jsonline.com, 20 Aug. 2025
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  • The worst part of this tax is that Illinois Democrats, in their desperation for more revenue, ended up encouraging more casual bettors to overdo it and get into financial trouble.
    The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 3 Sep. 2025
  • But the actor slips into the role flawlessly (with the help of good makeup), never overdoing it and adding a fair amount of gravitas to the constantly shifting scenery.
    Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 31 Aug. 2025
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  • With all other options seemingly exhausted, Una and Spock decide to take another path by getting in touch with their crewmates’ katras, roughly the Vulcan term for the soul, though the Vulcans would probably not want to use that term.
    Keith Phipps, Vulture, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Jones remained on Ohio's death row for decades, exhausting most of his appeals, until Hamilton County Common Pleas Judge Wende Cross overturned his murder conviction, freed him from prison and granted him a new trial two years ago.
    Dan Horn, The Enquirer, 3 Sep. 2025
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  • The classes are highly scripted and, in my opinion, boring.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 25 Aug. 2025
  • In the early episodes, when everyone’s still getting to know each other, are the conversations boring?
    Scottie Andrew, CNN Money, 24 Aug. 2025

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“Overexpose.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overexpose. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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