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Recent Examples of overextend
Don’t overextend yourself or commit to a situation that doesn’t honor your values.
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Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 17 Sep. 2025
Be intentional, but don’t overextend yourself.
—Julia Korn, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
Nevertheless, don’t overextend yourself.
—Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 31 Aug. 2025
This isn’t the time to juggle a million projects or overextend yourself socially.
—Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 24 Aug. 2025
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Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 17 Sep. 2025
Be intentional, but don’t overextend yourself.
—Julia Korn, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
Nevertheless, don’t overextend yourself.
—Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 31 Aug. 2025
This isn’t the time to juggle a million projects or overextend yourself socially.
—Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 24 Aug. 2025
See All Example Sentences for overextend
Recent Examples of Synonyms for overextend
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With the screening in Park Forest, Rockrohr now hopes to broaden his audience with presentations at documentary film festivals throughout the country.—
Jerry Shnay,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Feb. 2026
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Bad Bunny’s appointment as Super Bowl ringmaster aligns with the NFL’s pursuit to broaden the audience for American football.—
Melissa Ruggieri,
USA Today,
3 Feb. 2026
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Rozier's lawyers have asked for the charges against him to be thrown out, arguing that the government overreached by turning a private dispute over bettors' use of nonpublic information into a federal case.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
3 Feb. 2026
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But the agency's conservative critics have long accused the CFPB of overreaching, punishing small lenders and harming businesses.—
Stephan Bisaha,
NPR,
21 Jan. 2026
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In that sense, wetware computing is less about building artificial brains and more about widening the set of tools available to computation itself.—
Matthew S Williams,
Interesting Engineering,
5 Feb. 2026
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Here, Ellis explains how and why pro football made a conscious effort to widen its all-American tent to include women, people of color, casual fans and international viewers — and make the sport more valuable to marketers.—
Cynthia Littleton,
Variety,
5 Feb. 2026
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Daryanani also noted that Apple’s recently reported revenue and EPS (earnings per share) for the December quarter exceeded expectations, with the company delivering better-than-expected gross margin, driven by limited memory impact and robust Services growth.—
TipRanks,
CNBC,
8 Feb. 2026
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His photographs vibrate with the excess of their ornamentation, with an audacity of presence that exceeds the realm of the emblematic.—
Zoë Hopkins,
New Yorker,
7 Feb. 2026
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Jennie headlined Coachella as a solo artist while expanding her fashion ventures.—
Hannah Abraham,
Forbes.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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In recent years, auction houses have expanded their categories as luxury goods and collectibles have helped buoy their sales.—
Jacqui Palumbo,
CNN Money,
27 Jan. 2026
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“Overextend.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overextend. Accessed 9 Feb. 2026.
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