as in to splurge
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Recent Examples of overspend
The one con to a three home is definitely the tendency to overspend.
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Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 3 Nov. 2025
Deals With so many deals under $50 at Amazon, there’s no need to overspend to upgrade your travel style.
—Sophie Dodd, Travel + Leisure, 18 Oct. 2025
And that’s why the Wild were cautious not to overspend in July 1 free agency when their top targets, like Brock Nelson and Brock Boeser, were no longer available.
—Michael Russo, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2025
If consumers continue to lose financial ground and the federal government continues to overspend, one day the government may have to choose between helping victims of the latest disaster or paying out Social Security benefits (or other program payments).
—Mike Patton, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
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Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 3 Nov. 2025
Deals With so many deals under $50 at Amazon, there’s no need to overspend to upgrade your travel style.
—Sophie Dodd, Travel + Leisure, 18 Oct. 2025
And that’s why the Wild were cautious not to overspend in July 1 free agency when their top targets, like Brock Nelson and Brock Boeser, were no longer available.
—Michael Russo, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2025
If consumers continue to lose financial ground and the federal government continues to overspend, one day the government may have to choose between helping victims of the latest disaster or paying out Social Security benefits (or other program payments).
—Mike Patton, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for overspend
Recent Examples of Synonyms for overspend
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Carden-Lovell recommends splurging on time off, taking advantage of shoulder season's lower prices, thinner crowds and cooler weather (outside spring break periods, of course).—
Natalie B. Compton The Washington Post,
Arkansas Online,
1 Feb. 2026
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This is another great option for anyone open to splurging.—
Kaelin Dodge,
InStyle,
27 Jan. 2026
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Joabe Barbosa, Matthew Plese and Omar Yousaf spent the day riding the entire MARTA rail system in an attempt to complete the full route in roughly three hours.—
Kaley Fedko,
CBS News,
9 Jan. 2026
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Visitors can spend their entire trip switching off between the two, but be sure to take some time to explore the rocky cove beaches called calas that have made Costa Blanca famous.—
Liz Provencher,
Travel + Leisure,
9 Jan. 2026
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Seymour said the fundraiser’s original goal has already been consumed by travel costs alone and warned that future expenses — including therapy — remain unknown.—
Stepheny Price,
FOXNews.com,
31 Jan. 2026
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Finally, the dietary guidelines fail to state that people under age 21 should not consume alcohol at all.—
Paul Gilbert,
Mercury News,
31 Jan. 2026
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When engagement sits at 20% globally, that means 8 out of 10 people show up to jobs that deplete them.—
Vibhas Ratanjee,
Forbes.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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The Capitol Corridor shares a fleet of locomotives with the San Joaquin Joint Powers Authority, but a pool of standby backup trains has been depleted.—
Don Sweeney,
Sacbee.com,
26 Jan. 2026
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There is little dispute that Maduro was an evil, corrupt autocrat who undermined Venezuelan elections, with his brutality leading to the flight of 8 million refugees and impoverishing his resource-rich land.—
Jeffrey Sonnenfeld,
Fortune,
3 Jan. 2026
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As Richardson, a dancer, wrote in her biography, My Life in E-Flat, that area of the Lower East Side was Ukrainian and impoverished at the time, and the house had five families living in it, one per floor.—
Kim Velsey,
Curbed,
4 Dec. 2025
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On its upward climb, the SLS will quickly exhaust the fuel in all six of its first-stage engines, and they will be jettisoned, leaving only the rocket's upper stage and the Orion spacecraft to reach orbit.—
Jeffrey Kluger,
Time,
29 Jan. 2026
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But freedom of expression is a constant pursuit, as natural as breathing, and silencing it is an imperfect practice that exhausts the oppressor and energizes the oppressed.—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
28 Jan. 2026
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Cuba has squandered the goodwill of governments across the ideological spectrum.—
Ricardo Torres,
Time,
8 Jan. 2026
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The Longhorns nearly squandered a 15-point lead in the fourth quarter of the Ole Miss game before escaping with a three-point triumph.—
Danny Davis,
Austin American Statesman,
7 Jan. 2026
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The result is wasted energy, excess heat, and diminishing returns on efficiency improvements that once accompanied each generation of smaller transistors.—
Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
31 Jan. 2026
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Moments earlier, his goalkeeper Anatoliy Trubin had been actively wasting time.—
Nick Miller,
New York Times,
31 Jan. 2026
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“Overspend.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overspend. Accessed 2 Feb. 2026.
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