overextends

present tense third-person singular of overextend

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for overextends
Verb
  • Miao Hua, the Chinese army's top political officer, was also expelled from the party, as Xi broadens his anti-corruption drive.
    Barney Henderson, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Parker’s series starts out with too much bellowing and yelling along with hazing and bullying but loosens up and broadens out to peer into the lives of other recruits who are wrestling with demons and sometimes each other.
    Randy Myers, Mercury News, 16 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Without trust and governance, the gap widens.
    Adam Mills, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Oct. 2025
  • That said, the action Monday was respectable but uneven, with AMD adding some $70 billion in market value to contribute a third of the S & P 500′s roughly half-percent gain on the day, while Nvidia shed more than $40 billion as the search for scarce processing resources widens.
    Michael Santoli, CNBC, 6 Oct. 2025
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“Overextends.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overextends. Accessed 25 Oct. 2025.

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