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verb

past tense of overprice

as in overvalued

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Lin did exactly what Netflix asked, steering away from overpriced $200 million-plus, non-downstream features like Red Notice, The Irishman and The Electric State. — Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 19 Oct. 2026 If the finger felt like a gimmick, so did the overpriced drinks — in every city and at every stop. — Jeanne Bonner, CNN Money, 16 Oct. 2026 The ethos of these few blocks, with all their overpriced swag and made-in-China Americana, is cheesiness. — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 1 Oct. 2026 Both are sound strategies under the right circumstances, but neither can tell you whether a stock that’s down 30% is cheap, or merely less overpriced. — Bydoug Ashburn, Encyclopedia Britannica, 24 Sep. 2026 Volkswagen Meanwhile the struggling VW hierarchy has to prove to the motoring world that the new GTI is a genuine leap forward for the electric hot hatch – not an overpriced attempt to cash in on a legendary nameplate. — New Atlas, 17 Sep. 2026 In the few negative reviews, people mentioned that some of the food was cold and overpriced. — Carly Sauvageau, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2026 Many were found to be substandard, overpriced or not built at all. — ABC News, 7 Sep. 2026 Is there a mutually beneficial player with an equally overpriced contract to trade for at another position that could actually contribute to the Bulls? — Joel Lorenzi, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for overpriced

Adjective

Supporting Florida’s space industry does not need to be expensive.

— Max Harden, The Orlando Sentinel, 29 Oct. 2026
With the absence of any major AI company and relatively expensive valuations, investors have picked markets such as South Korea and Taiwan over India, experts said.

— Priyanka Salve, CNBC, 28 Oct. 2026

Definition of expensive

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Analysts said the stock, after a huge surge following the success in a trial of its experimental cancer vaccine for melanoma, is now overvalued.

— Darla Mercado, CFP®,Davis Giangiulio, CNBC, 3 Sep. 2026
Despite the robust results, some analysts suggest BHP's share price, up 41% this year, may be overvalued.

— Tim Treadgold, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026

Definition of overvalued

Adjective

Now Trump wants to fund Putin’s war machine in exchange for diesel fuel, which is in short supply and now comes at an exorbitant cost.

— Kevin Igoe, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2026
While that system didn’t require up-front game purchases, the initial pricing was exorbitant, rising to $30 for 90 days of real-time streaming access, even for games that could be purchased outright on disc for less.

— Kyle Orland, ArsTechnica, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of exorbitant

Adjective

Across the country, 57% of Americans now say their utilities are unaffordable, up from 45% in February, according to an ABC News/Washington Post/Ipsos poll conducted using Ipsos' KnowledgePanel.

— ABC News, ABC News, 29 Oct. 2026
Higher mortgage rates have made buying a home unaffordable for 5 million more Americans since the beginning of the year, according to Oxford Economics, a consulting firm.

— Christopher Rugaber, Chicago Tribune, 28 Oct. 2026

Definition of unaffordable

Adjective

This is additive to an IT operating model, meaning there will be more future technology development as projects, which in the past would have been considered cost-prohibitive, become economically feasible.

— Rex Lee, Forbes.com, 26 Oct. 2026
After all, no company wants to buy the first few that are economically prohibitive, so the Army is jumping in financially and then helping the economies of scale take over.

— Jordan Blum, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2026

Definition of prohibitive

Verb

But the contract lays out various fees that could have inflated the amount owed, including $5,000 for defaulting and another $5,000 for blocking access to a bank account.

— Audrey McGlinchy, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2026
The suit seeks to represent a class of schools that purchased athletic equipment in Mississippi and Louisiana at what is purported to be fraudulently inflated prices.

— Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 27 Oct. 2026

Definition of inflated

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