overspending

verb

present participle of overspend
as in spending

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for overspending
  1. spending
  2. depleting
  3. consuming
  4. splurging
  5. exhausting
  6. wasting
  7. squandering
  8. misspending
Verb
  • For consumption, Temasek sees opportunities in spending on experiences over goods, and homegrown consumer brands that have proved innovation capabilities, over foreign brands.
    — Anniek Bao, CNBC, 8 July 2026
  • But instead, Patel is walking free after spending two years living with his parents and participating in therapy.
    — Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2026
Definition of spending
Verb
  • Exhausted leaders often make worse decisions, model unsustainable behaviors and quietly signal to their teams that depleting yourself is what dedication looks like.
    — Aaron Wolowiec, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026
  • The One Big Beautiful Bill also removed a tax on Social Security benefits, depleting another source of the program's revenue.
    — Max Zahn, ABC News, 2 July 2026
Definition of depleting
Verb
  • Check their website before consuming fish caught from the rivers.
    — Finch Walker, USA Today, 5 July 2026
  • First, mantids feed indiscriminately, consuming a wide variety of insects including beneficial insects such as bees, butterflies, and syrphid flies.
    — Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 July 2026
Definition of consuming
Verb
  • Flush with this newfound wealth, a growing number of South Korean retail investors are splurging on luxury goods like those sold at Shinsegae, according to analysts.
    — John Kang, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
  • Taken together, the Prime Day 2026 data paints a portrait of a consumer base that is active but strained, spending but not splurging, and increasingly reliant on financial instruments — and retail events — to manage the gap between income and anxiety.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 24 June 2026
Definition of splurging
Verb
  • The two young women at the center of the chamber piece that is Fruit Gathering face more challenges than hard work in a monotonous environment, including exhausting work, economic uncertainty and social repression.
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 8 July 2026
  • This convergence is a very encouraging sign, providing the first footprint of a structural trend change and indicating that the selling pressure from the recent rug pull is finally exhausting itself.
    — Nishant Pant, CNBC, 7 July 2026
Definition of exhausting
Verb
  • Once again, no one is here for the play-acting, the time-wasting, the cheating.
    — Stuart James, New York Times, 5 July 2026
  • Rather than simply reducing power use across the board, the system attempts to identify exactly when machinery is wasting energy and proposes operational changes that can reduce consumption without disrupting productivity.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 4 July 2026
Definition of wasting
Verb
  • The team became notorious for collapsing, squandering double-digit leads in three crucial games with 1-in-250,000 odds.
    — Rob Reischel, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026
  • The African team took the lead and had chances to extend it, but ultimately paid dearly for squandering those opportunities.
    — Eduard Cauich, Los Angeles Times, 4 July 2026
Definition of squandering
Verb
  • Glen Gilzean, who left his Orange County post accused of misspending millions in taxpayer dollars, has been tapped as the new CEO of the Juvenile Welfare Board of Pinellas County.
    — Alexa Coultoff, The Orlando Sentinel, 7 Apr. 2026
  • Another is the surprising fact that no Florida law specifically prohibits public officials from misspending public funds on political advertising.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 23 Jan. 2026
Definition of misspending
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