overspending

present participle of overspend

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for overspending
Verb
  • This summer’s transfer window was a record-setting one, with Premier League teams spending more than £3billion — seven of the 20 clubs paid the highest fee in their history — as the division outspent Europe’s other four major leagues combined.
    Liam Tharme, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2025
  • In 2024, Detroit Free Press' Georgea Kovanis shared her experiences spending a year, along with photographer Mandi Wright, with Amanda, a woman addicted to drugs who is helping others like her, distributing harm reduction items that have saved lives.
    Detroit Free Press staff, Freep.com, 4 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • This film marries the two, as modern macro economics lead people to abandon fertile lands in search of work in urban cities, depleting the white storks’ natural food supply as farms become landfills.
    Scott Feinberg, HollywoodReporter, 22 Sep. 2025
  • As a sign of the effort’s feasibility, the statement points to similar international resolutions that established red lines in other dangerous arenas, like prohibitions on biological weapons or ozone-depleting chlorofluorocarbons.
    Jared Perlo, NBC news, 22 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Robert Zemeckis' comically gruesome look at female beauty standards finds Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn consuming a magic potion that promises eternal life — with a little (nay, a lot) of maintenance.
    Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 2 Oct. 2025
  • According to the study, the membrane achieved one of the highest selectivities for lithium among similar technologies while consuming considerably less energy.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 2 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • An outing with friends could disrupt your sense of security, while others of you consider splurging on a community affair.
    Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 20 Sep. 2025
  • Tax advisors are widely expensive, with large companies splurging thousands if not millions to hire them.
    Rashi Shrivastava, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • So Much Fun) and others exhausting (the YSL Slime Language comps, 2023’s Business Is Business), as well as too many studio leaks unleashed via message board accounts.
    Mosi Reeves, Rolling Stone, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Each one of those alerts puts millions of lives on hold – part of Russia’s strategy of terrorizing and exhausting Ukraine’s civilian population.
    Daria Tarasova-Markina, CNN Money, 25 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Denim has long been branded one of the most climate-adverse, chemical-heavy, water-wasting fabrics to mill and manufacture.
    Kate Nishimura, Sourcing Journal, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Talk about wasting our valuable resource.
    DP Opinion, Denver Post, 29 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The Los Angeles Dodgers were at risk of squandering a potential commanding lead in the National League Division Series when Roberts summoned Alex Vesia into the cauldron.
    Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Knueppel would end up being the tourney MVP and helping Duke get to the Final Four, where the Blue Devils lost to Houston after squandering a six-point lead in the final 35 seconds.
    Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 30 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • There are literally a million better ways to stop food waste than partnering with a family that has been convicted of felonies for misspending nonprofit money.
    Emily Barnes, USA Today, 24 Sep. 2025
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“Overspending.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overspending. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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