overspends

present tense third-person singular of overspend

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for overspends
Verb
  • Every company generates or consumes capital.
    Jim Osman, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
  • All in all, the researchers estimated their new device consumes at most one-tenth the power of current state-of-the-art electronic neuromorphic hardware.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 18 June 2026
Verb
  • Spoilers Ahead Kara is introduced as a reckless party animal, who spends her time seeking out planets orbiting red suns, to weaken her superpowered metabolism and become intoxicated.
    Dani Di Placido, Forbes.com, 27 June 2026
  • BestReviews spends thousands of hours researching, analyzing and testing products to recommend the best picks for most consumers.
    BestReviews, Mercury News, 26 June 2026
Verb
  • Every dollar of capital reduction at a large bank increases, at the margin, the probability that a stress event depletes the DIF and reaches the public balance sheet.
    Mayra Rodriguez Valladares, Forbes.com, 19 June 2026
  • Concentration burns glucose, decision-making depletes mental energy reserves, and by mid-afternoon, the prefrontal cortex is operating at a fraction of its morning capacity.
    William Jones June 8, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 June 2026
Verb
  • Watching this scene, and much of the film, exhausts me.
    Jenny Odell, Longreads, 2 June 2026
  • If the search for a large outdoor planter exhausts you—just get a terra-cotta planter.
    Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 6 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • For years, American families have relished the vast marketplace that global trade offers, finding essentials and splurges online at prices tailored to various budgets.
    Leif Larson, Boston Herald, 20 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • The deeper the water, the sooner a vehicle loses traction on the road.
    NC Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 27 June 2026
  • Sweden loses key piece The first half was a sloppy slugfest as both teams tried to use their physicality to assume control.
    Steven Johnson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 June 2026
Verb
  • Over and over, Levinson squanders opportunities for humanization or interiority in favor of provocation.
    Inkoo Kang, New Yorker, 28 May 2026
  • Trapping individuals in endless cycles of exclusion and financial hardship squanders potential, reduces tax revenue and widens disparities.
    Brian Fabes, Chicago Tribune, 24 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Seventeen minutes in and Colombia has its best shot as Córdoba springs the counter and runs through from the right and shoots to the far post, but Diogo Costa dives low to deflect it out to the corner.
    NBC News, NBC news, 28 June 2026
  • The Padres evened the score with a Gavin Sheets’ solo home run off Dodgers starter Yoshinobu Yamamoto, who’d go on to limit the Padres to two runs through six innings.
    Maddie Lee, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2026
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“Overspends.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overspends. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.

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