as in to splurge
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Recent Examples of overspend
The company forecasts overspending the loan by about $157 million through next year, according to a January filing in an unrelated lawsuit.
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Calmatters, Oc Register, 12 Aug. 2025
Travelers can enjoy Paris without overspending by timing trips for the off-season, booking early, and skipping touristy hotspots.
—Lane Nieset, Travel + Leisure, 26 July 2025
State governments are not allowed to overspend – to run a deficit like the federal government has been doing for a quarter of a century.
—Gary Franks, Hartford Courant, 12 July 2025
As Republican senators consider President Donald Trump’s big bill that could slash federal spending and extend tax cuts, a new survey shows most U.S. adults don’t think the government is overspending on the programs the GOP has focused on cutting, like Medicaid and food stamps.
—Linley Sanders, Chicago Tribune, 16 June 2025
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Calmatters, Oc Register, 12 Aug. 2025
Travelers can enjoy Paris without overspending by timing trips for the off-season, booking early, and skipping touristy hotspots.
—Lane Nieset, Travel + Leisure, 26 July 2025
State governments are not allowed to overspend – to run a deficit like the federal government has been doing for a quarter of a century.
—Gary Franks, Hartford Courant, 12 July 2025
As Republican senators consider President Donald Trump’s big bill that could slash federal spending and extend tax cuts, a new survey shows most U.S. adults don’t think the government is overspending on the programs the GOP has focused on cutting, like Medicaid and food stamps.
—Linley Sanders, Chicago Tribune, 16 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for overspend
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Tax advisors are widely expensive, with large companies splurging thousands if not millions to hire them.—
Rashi Shrivastava,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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More iPhone Deals Don't feel like splurging yet?—
K. Thor Jensen,
PC Magazine,
9 Sep. 2025
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More on that decision and a list of other schools that have decided to spend cash on volleyball here.—
Payton Titus,
Louisville Courier Journal,
4 Sep. 2025
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Tony didn’t find out about their daughter until after Ziva’s death, then father and daughter spent several years together before Ziva revealed the truth.—
Toni Fitzgerald,
Forbes.com,
4 Sep. 2025
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Smoke remains visible near Patterson Bluff and Dinkey Creek as fuels continue to consume in the fire perimeter.—
CA WILDFIRE BOT,
Sacbee.com,
5 Sep. 2025
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Conversely, consuming healthy amounts of iron and vitamin D was associated with hair growth.—
Brian Mastroianni,
Health,
5 Sep. 2025
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Miami’s secondary was already depleted by injury after losing Artie Burns to a season-ending knee injury on the first day of training camp, Kader Kohou to a season-ending knee injury in the first week of training camp.—
Omar Kelly,
Miami Herald,
7 Sep. 2025
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Once all the easy-to-access food sources are depleted, squirrels chew through plastic, wood, or house siding to find more.—
Mary Marlowe Leverette,
Southern Living,
4 Sep. 2025
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Clearly, holding single parents legally responsible for incautious, negligent or irresponsible parenting could fill up jails and prisons and impoverish such families completely and radically.—
Ellen Sauerbrey,
Baltimore Sun,
18 Aug. 2025
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The current budget increases funding, but at a rate less then inflation, further impoverishing our schools.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
20 July 2025
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With all other options seemingly exhausted, Una and Spock decide to take another path by getting in touch with their crewmates’ katras, roughly the Vulcan term for the soul, though the Vulcans would probably not want to use that term.—
Keith Phipps,
Vulture,
4 Sep. 2025
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Jones remained on Ohio's death row for decades, exhausting most of his appeals, until Hamilton County Common Pleas Judge Wende Cross overturned his murder conviction, freed him from prison and granted him a new trial two years ago.—
Dan Horn,
The Enquirer,
3 Sep. 2025
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If the effort once again stalls, reform advocates say, Congress risks squandering what may be its best chance in a decade to act.—
Nik Popli,
Time,
2 Sep. 2025
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But leaving such decisions to multiple developers with no guiding vision will squander a once-in-a-generation opportunity for Edgewater.—
Patricia Sharkey,
Chicago Tribune,
2 Sep. 2025
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The search had cost emergency services hundreds of thousands of dollars, and Phillips was soon charged with wasting police time.—
Todd Symons,
CNN Money,
9 Sep. 2025
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This reveals how enthusiasm without integration discipline wastes time and capital.—
Malana VanTyler,
USA Today,
9 Sep. 2025
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“Overspend.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overspend. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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