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Recent Examples of oversensitive
Most commenters on the TSR post agreed that Yung Miami meant no disrespect and that Lizzo was being a little oversensitive.
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Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 26 Mar. 2025
The 8th and 9th are full of good energy, but everyone seems to be feeling oversensitive near the 13th.
—Katharine Merlin, Town & Country, 1 Sep. 2023
My Feelings’ is that the entire movie turns into a satire of what has become our fetishistically supportive and oversensitive therapeutic culture of positivity.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 16 May 2023
Can people be oversensitive?
—Clay Cane, CNN, 5 Apr. 2023
Automated software looks for moving blips of light, checks them against possible false positives like subatomic particles from space zapping the detector, oversensitive pixels, and the like.
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 31 Mar. 2023
Suzanne Cryer as the oversensitive poet and Cedric Yarbrough as the professor who refuses to indulge her are amusing, and so is Shannon DeVido as a film professor whose response to Saunders is a hoot.
—Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Mar. 2023
Students are often accused of being oversensitive, but Professor Wax’s colleagues have shared their own uncomfortable moments with her in public forums.
—Vimal Patel, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2023
Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 26 Mar. 2025
The 8th and 9th are full of good energy, but everyone seems to be feeling oversensitive near the 13th.
—Katharine Merlin, Town & Country, 1 Sep. 2023
My Feelings’ is that the entire movie turns into a satire of what has become our fetishistically supportive and oversensitive therapeutic culture of positivity.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 16 May 2023
Can people be oversensitive?
—Clay Cane, CNN, 5 Apr. 2023
Automated software looks for moving blips of light, checks them against possible false positives like subatomic particles from space zapping the detector, oversensitive pixels, and the like.
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 31 Mar. 2023
Suzanne Cryer as the oversensitive poet and Cedric Yarbrough as the professor who refuses to indulge her are amusing, and so is Shannon DeVido as a film professor whose response to Saunders is a hoot.
—Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Mar. 2023
Students are often accused of being oversensitive, but Professor Wax’s colleagues have shared their own uncomfortable moments with her in public forums.
—Vimal Patel, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for oversensitive
Adjective
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Law enforcement faces the challenge of sorting fact from fiction in real time as swatters employ tools like AI to bolster their hoax in a hypersensitive climate surrounding mass shootings.—
Rebekah Riess,
CNN Money,
1 Sep. 2025
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In autistic individuals, this sense can be either heightened (hypersensitive) or diminished (hyposensitive).—
Sarah Shephard,
New York Times,
31 July 2025
Adjective
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Your eyes become supersensitive to sunlight: Some people with nr-axSpA will also have a condition called uveitis.—
Alice Oglethorpe,
SELF,
18 July 2025
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Across the world, dozens of supersensitive detectors have been installed since the beginning of the Cold War era to detect infrasound waves created by nuclear tests thousands of miles away.—
Tereza Pultarova,
Space.com,
12 May 2025
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The automaker is the latest British company to be hit by a cybersecurity incident in recent months amid a surge in cyber and ransomware attacks globally, as increasingly sophisticated threat actors disrupt operations and compromise sensitive data.—
Pushkala Aripaka,
USA Today,
3 Sep. 2025
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Stress has been building at the long-end of the yield curve, where investors are most sensitive to fiscal credibility.—
Lee Ying Shan,
CNBC,
3 Sep. 2025
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“Oversensitive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/oversensitive. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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