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verb

past tense of overprice

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of overpriced
Adjective
Some CNCs are overpriced, needlessly complex, inaccessible, or some combination of the three. Ethan Stone, USA Today, 22 Oct. 2025 Gone are the days of paying for overpriced coffee shop matcha. Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 10 Oct. 2025 Band members had a day or so to do a few touristy things, like pay a visit to the Rainbow Bar & Grill, famous as a hangout for British rock stars like Led Zeppelin and Keith Moon of the Who, and get scammed by a shop that sold them overpriced, faulty cameras. Todd Longwell, Variety, 9 Oct. 2025 At least there’s a silver lining — San Francisco’s housing market is heating up again, so now the overpriced coffee isn’t the only thing thriving. Roman Axelrod, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2025 Inside the stadium, healthy options have traditionally been scarce and overpriced. Aaron Mansfield, The Conversation, 7 Oct. 2025 Shop it now for $24 to save yourself from paying for overpriced water at the airport. Asia London Palomba, Travel + Leisure, 6 Oct. 2025 The 2025 Wrangler Rubicon 4xe is absurd, impractical, overpriced, and an odd combination of power – which is exactly why people should love it. New Atlas, 27 Sep. 2025 India's secondary market looks overpriced as compared to other emerging markets. Priyanka Salve, CNBC, 18 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for overpriced
Adjective
  • Zettel then decided renting a hotel room for the night would be too expensive and let her daughter sleep in her car instead.
    David Clarey, jsonline.com, 27 Oct. 2025
  • In the aftermath of the expensive blunder, Schwarzman was quickly pulled aside by an investor.
    Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 27 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Even if the country eventually succeeds in attracting investment, more American resources may also be required to stabilize the peso, which most economists agree is overvalued relative to prices.
    John Cassidy, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Amid this lengthy bull market, however, some stocks could be overvalued.
    Pia Singh, CNBC, 18 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The effort paid off, as the retro resulted in a look that’s as close to a crisp vintage ’85 pair fans will get without having to pay exorbitant resale premiums.
    Riley Jones, Footwear News, 22 Oct. 2025
  • The trick was just finding that next pile of exorbitant wealth and luring it in with our siren song of cultural relevance and creative ambition.
    John Lopez, HollywoodReporter, 21 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • That’s consistently overrated as a factor.
    Joe Rexrode, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Both the Aggies and Fighting Irish ended up being overrated, but a win like that is still a big win.
    Quentin Corpuel, Kansas City Star, 12 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Kentucky's largest school system is shrinking, with the latest enrollment numbers showing Jefferson County Public School leaders slightly overestimated how many students would show up for school this fall.
    Krista Johnson, Louisville Courier Journal, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Has Starmer overestimated the public’s appetite for complexity?
    Christian Edwards, CNN Money, 30 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • All the while, wages haven’t grown at the same pace as home appreciation, making buying a house feel even more unaffordable.
    Sydney Lake, Fortune, 27 Oct. 2025
  • In this year’s index, 41 cities were unaffordable, up from 38 cities last year.
    Celia Fernandez, CNBC, 22 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Beating New England was legitimately impressive -- especially in hindsight -- but the victories over the Jets, Vikings and Browns inflated this team's record.
    Tyler Everett, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Those expectations might be only slightly inflated for this Dodgers era.
    Bill Plunkett, Oc Register, 24 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The pieces were not insured, which is not uncommon for state collections because of the prohibitive costs, the Times reported, citing France’s culture ministry.
    Michael Dorgan, FOXNews.com, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Western Conference teams would be the prohibitive favorites.
    Bay Area News Group, Mercury News, 21 Oct. 2025

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