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Recent Examples of overpriced
Dr. Jill Grimes, CNN Money, 8 Sep. 2025
At the same time, everything from mini-bars to a beer at what were once cheap lobby bars has gotten wildly overpriced, especially on the Strip.
—Larry Olmsted, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
As Sin City grapples with a tourism decline, one Las Vegas icon is pointing fingers at overpriced casinos and hotels and the damage the COVID-19 virus left behind.
—Ashley J. Dimella, FOXNews.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Now time to get extremely overpriced food.
—R29 Team, Refinery29, 13 Aug. 2025
This past week both teams looked like nothing more than overpriced mediocrities at a time when all the reinforcements were supposed to have turned things around for both of them.
—Mike Lupica, New York Daily News, 7 Aug. 2025
Adjective
Doctors may assume a decades-old generic medication is inexpensive, yet insurance formularies may make this traditional drug an overpriced option.
—Dr. Jill Grimes, CNN Money, 8 Sep. 2025
At the same time, everything from mini-bars to a beer at what were once cheap lobby bars has gotten wildly overpriced, especially on the Strip.
—Larry Olmsted, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
As Sin City grapples with a tourism decline, one Las Vegas icon is pointing fingers at overpriced casinos and hotels and the damage the COVID-19 virus left behind.
—Ashley J. Dimella, FOXNews.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Now time to get extremely overpriced food.
—R29 Team, Refinery29, 13 Aug. 2025
This past week both teams looked like nothing more than overpriced mediocrities at a time when all the reinforcements were supposed to have turned things around for both of them.
—Mike Lupica, New York Daily News, 7 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for overpriced
Adjective
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Goop, Gwyneth Paltrow’s e-mail newsletter turned e-commerce platform, monetized an all-natural life style, promoting raw-goat-milk cleanses and expensive organic cosmetics.—
Clare Malone,
New Yorker,
15 Sep. 2025
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Drone dilemma The US excels at building large, expensive weaponry, but most American soldiers lack the know-how for fighting with unmanned systems.—
Daniel Wine,
CNN Money,
15 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Some, however, are urging caution, warning the unprecedented success has made the stock overvalued.—
Jeremy Kahn,
Fortune,
11 Sep. 2025
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Tesla critics say that the stock has become grossly overvalued because of Wall Street’s willingness to buy into Musk’s vision of the future in terms of AI, self-driving vehicles and robots, despite its failures to deliver on past promises along those lines.—
Chris Isidore,
CNN Money,
5 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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This leaves the remainder, folks more likely to purchase insurance because of poorer health, with potentially exorbitant premiums and out-of-pocket costs.—
Joshua P. Cohen,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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Leaning into its own evolution over retro homage or elegant pastiche, Art of Vengeance shows the value that a two-dimensional platformer can have at a time when exorbitant AAA games all suffer from overly ambitious bloat.—
Christopher Cruz,
Rolling Stone,
3 Sep. 2025
Verb
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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
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Steve Sarkisian is overrated and always has been.—
Nick Canepa,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
30 Aug. 2025
Verb
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Annual revisions released Tuesday by the BLS revealed that initial estimates for nonfarm payrolls data for the 12 months to March of this year were overestimated by 911,000, likely contributing to existing concerns about the state of the labor market and the economy going forward.—
Hugh Cameron,
MSNBC Newsweek,
9 Sep. 2025
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And the final 2024 revision, issued in February, showed that the 2024 data was overestimated by 589,000 jobs.—
David Goldman,
CNN Money,
5 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Charlotte home prices are becoming increasingly unaffordable, along with the rest of the country.—
Desiree Mathurin,
Charlotte Observer,
12 Sep. 2025
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Yet, over the past 15 years that medication has become increasingly unaffordable.—
Ana Santos Rutschman,
The Conversation,
9 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Understanding that a hot exo-atmosphere would be large and inflated in size, and that graphite would absorb practically all of the starlight impacting that atmosphere if there were a high-altitude layer of it, represents a fascinating scenario for explaining the features of these planets.—
Ethan Siegel,
Big Think,
10 Sep. 2025
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Keeping tires properly inflated not only extends their life but also squeezes more miles out of every charge—a win for the wallet and the planet.—
Melanie Marshall,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
10 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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This means finalizing an open banking rule that guarantees every American the right to access and share their financial data without prohibitive fees.—
Penny Lee,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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For once, zooming in proves to be prohibitive, only in seeing the scope of this mind-bending tragedy does Greengrass truly find his most important story.—
Kate Erbland,
IndieWire,
6 Sep. 2025
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“Overpriced.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overpriced. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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