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Recent Examples of overextend
For instance, Christopher remains overweight on large-cap stocks but has trimmed positions in communication services to take some profit and reduce exposure in case the market is overextended.
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Michelle Fox, CNBC, 29 Aug. 2025
This isn’t the time to juggle a million projects or overextend yourself socially.
—Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 24 Aug. 2025
The tendency to overextend, chasing every trend or trying to fill every gap, slows decision-making and dilutes brand identity.
—Sarah Jones, Sourcing Journal, 20 Aug. 2025
Until 2023, Russia acted as Armenia’s protector in its conflict with Azerbaijan over the enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, but when Azerbaijan attacked Armenia in 2023, Russia, its military overextended, did not come to Armenia’s assistance.
—Daniel S. Hamilton, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2025
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Michelle Fox, CNBC, 29 Aug. 2025
This isn’t the time to juggle a million projects or overextend yourself socially.
—Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 24 Aug. 2025
The tendency to overextend, chasing every trend or trying to fill every gap, slows decision-making and dilutes brand identity.
—Sarah Jones, Sourcing Journal, 20 Aug. 2025
Until 2023, Russia acted as Armenia’s protector in its conflict with Azerbaijan over the enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, but when Azerbaijan attacked Armenia in 2023, Russia, its military overextended, did not come to Armenia’s assistance.
—Daniel S. Hamilton, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for overextend
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Our goal is to broaden our reach while solidifying our position as a leading voice in American journalism.—
Alex Weprin,
HollywoodReporter,
6 Oct. 2025
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In August, Jackson broadened his request for similar Y-STR DNA profiles to law enforcement agencies throughout the country.—
Jean Casarez,
CNN Money,
5 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Starmer, along with members of his Labour government, has argued that education should be prioritized instead of overreaching government mandates.—
Caitlin McFall,
FOXNews.com,
29 Sep. 2025
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Supporters hailed it as a safeguard against catastrophic risks; critics blasted it as overreaching and impossible to enforce at AI’s pace.—
The AI Insider,
Interesting Engineering,
22 Sep. 2025
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Yet there’s nothing noticeable about him—brown hair, blue eyes, a chin just beginning to widen into adolescence—except the mix of fear and determination that shows when the camera zooms in on his face.—
Gershom Gorenberg,
The Atlantic,
3 Oct. 2025
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Travel lanes will then be shifted to the median, so crews can widen the highway and allow for a future tie-in to a new ramp from Sam Wilson Road.—
Joe Marusak,
Charlotte Observer,
3 Oct. 2025
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Nylander needs to replicate and probably exceed last season’s 45-goal campaign.—
Jonas Siegel,
New York Times,
7 Oct. 2025
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Collier said costs can easily exceed that in the most severe flood situations.—
Tamia Fowlkes,
jsonline.com,
6 Oct. 2025
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The Educational Freedom Accounts program significantly expand state taxpayer funding of student tuition and other costs related to private schools and some home-school expenses.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
2 Oct. 2025
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This is a sister organization to the Heritage Foundation, the think tank behind Project 2025—a sweeping conservative policy blueprint aimed at reshaping the federal government by expanding presidential power, dismantling parts of the civil service, and rolling back regulations across agencies.—
Martha McHardy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Oct. 2025
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“Overextend.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overextend. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.
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