as in overused
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 overexposed
United’s decade-plus of footballing dysfunction owes a partial debt to hiring processes that can make sense in the moment, but leave head coaches overexposed.
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Carl Anka, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2025
If most of your liabilities reprice simultaneously, you’re overexposed.
—Meelan Gupta, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
Carl Anka, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2025
If most of your liabilities reprice simultaneously, you’re overexposed.
—Meelan Gupta, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for overexposed
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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
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Just like credit scores today, which are, at best, meaningful heuristics but are grossly overused, the technology sometimes became a substitute for common sense.—
Brian Hamilton,
Fortune,
1 Sep. 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
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The group exhausted legal remedies after a February 2025 Kentucky Supreme Court ruling that upheld a 2021 Metro Council vote to strip the building of its local landmark status, clearing the way for demolition.—
Matthew Glowicki,
The Courier-Journal,
3 Sep. 2025
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This is, of course, a tremendously unfair characterization of the lunch lady, who, given her profession of feeding hungry children, ought to be stereotyped as saintly rather than monstrous.—
Helen Rosner,
New Yorker,
17 Aug. 2025
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Women are often stereotyped as less decisive than men, but, in reality, studies show that women and men are equally capable of making decisions quickly.—
Kim Elsesser,
Forbes.com,
8 Aug. 2025
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The first instinct when bored at work is to search for a new job.—
Benjamin Laker,
Forbes.com,
18 Aug. 2025
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Or is being bored an inherent part of childhood, maybe even one with long-term benefits?—
Jana Pollack,
Parents,
15 Aug. 2025
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“Overexposed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overexposed. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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