as in to splurge
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Recent Examples of overspend
To deal with stress, boredom or other emotions, some individuals overspend while shopping in person or online to satisfy a short-term desire.
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Aviva Pinto, Forbes.com, 15 Apr. 2025
Check the math: Maryland’s state budget of $67 billion annually has been overspent by $8 billion in two years.
—Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 4 Apr. 2025
Consistent engagement builds trust and attracts customers without overspending.
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—Melissa Houston, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2025
With this desperation comes the willingness to overspend.
—John Yoo and John Shu, Newsweek, 24 Jan. 2025
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Aviva Pinto, Forbes.com, 15 Apr. 2025
Check the math: Maryland’s state budget of $67 billion annually has been overspent by $8 billion in two years.
—Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 4 Apr. 2025
Consistent engagement builds trust and attracts customers without overspending.
7.
—Melissa Houston, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2025
With this desperation comes the willingness to overspend.
—John Yoo and John Shu, Newsweek, 24 Jan. 2025
See All Example Sentences for overspend
Recent Examples of Synonyms for overspend
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While most fashion-loving people will splurge on a designer item on occasion, Lauren Amos has upped her love of fashion to new heights.—
Rosemary Feitelberg,
Footwear News,
29 Apr. 2025
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Porcelain Serving Cart by Richard Schultz $4,230 Design Within Reach Knoll’s splurge worthy bar cart would look sleek perched poolside and holding a pitcher of sangria.—
Blake Bakkila,
Architectural Digest,
29 Apr. 2025
Verb
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And four years later, their collection of groups spent $42 million to unsuccessfully keep Trump from becoming the nominee for a third time.—
Philip Elliott,
Time,
2 May 2025
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At Alpha School, students spend just two hours a day in class, guided by an Artificial Intelligence (AI) tutor.—
Jasmine Baehr,
FOXNews.com,
2 May 2025
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Nor could the authors conclude definitively that the chimps were deliberately consuming ethanol-rich fruits and sharing it with their compatriots.—
Jennifer Ouellette,
ArsTechnica,
21 Apr. 2025
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Crews also conduct test burns before igniting a larger area, to verify how effectively fuels are consumed and how smoke will travel.—
CA WILDFIRE BOT,
Sacbee.com,
21 Apr. 2025
Verb
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They were depleted along the defensive line last year and were terrible against the run in the home stretch of the season.—
Matt Barrows,
New York Times,
25 Apr. 2025
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As of late 2024, 90%+ of that is depleted, especially among lower-income groups.—
Trefis Team,
Forbes.com,
25 Apr. 2025
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But were you really impoverished by buying from Costco?—
Newsweek Staff,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 Apr. 2025
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Republicans have floated industry-destroying ideas like taxing college and university scholarships as income, which would instantaneously blow up thousands of budgets in higher education and impoverish millions of students.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
31 Jan. 2025
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Dominate a single platform Many entrepreneurs exhaust themselves trying to maintain presence across every social channel, newsletter platform, and podcast directory.—
Jodie Cook,
Forbes.com,
30 Apr. 2025
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The gorilla could easily maim several men before being exhausted.—
Mohammed Soliman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 Apr. 2025
Verb
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The Mets’ late-inning shortcomings squandered a valiant effort by Waddell, who was called up from Triple-A Syracuse on Wednesday to provide length as the Mets deployed a bullpen game.—
Peter Sblendorio,
New York Daily News,
1 May 2025
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In the finale of Hulu’s Good American Family, Natalia Grace’s hopes that the justice system might finally prevail are squandered when the court of law becomes yet another place where her truth is not welcome.—
Katie Campione,
Deadline,
30 Apr. 2025
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Meta, like most AI companies, holds that training must be deemed fair use, or else the entire AI industry could face immense setbacks, wasting precious time negotiating data contracts while falling behind global rivals.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
2 May 2025
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Let what’s leaving go swiftly, and don’t waste time looking back.—
Meghan Rose,
Glamour,
1 May 2025
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“Overspend.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overspend. Accessed 5 May. 2025.
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