as in to stereotype
to use so much as to make less appealing
she had overused that joke to the point where it was eliciting groans and not guffaws
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Recent Examples of overuse
For example, one engineering company used AI agents to analyze workload distribution and identify areas where resources were being overused.
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Alex Circei, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025
Anyone who overuses or overextends one of these muscles can end up with pain in the back of their knee.
—Sarah Bradley, Health, 11 May 2025
Similar to coffee grounds, tea can be overused as a fertilizer.
—Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 28 Apr. 2025
But the real question isn’t whether BNPL is being overused.
—Nandan Sheth, Forbes.com, 23 Apr. 2025
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Alex Circei, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025
Anyone who overuses or overextends one of these muscles can end up with pain in the back of their knee.
—Sarah Bradley, Health, 11 May 2025
Similar to coffee grounds, tea can be overused as a fertilizer.
—Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 28 Apr. 2025
But the real question isn’t whether BNPL is being overused.
—Nandan Sheth, Forbes.com, 23 Apr. 2025
See All Example Sentences for overuse
Recent Examples of Synonyms for overuse
Verb
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People often stereotype crypto investors as reckless, young, or greedy.—
Jennifer Jolly,
USA Today,
18 June 2025
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In the aftermath, Islamophobia and xenophobia surged, with people from Iran and other countries in the region often stereotyped and wrongly associated with terrorism despite no evidence of wrongdoing or malicious activity.—
Mandy Taheri,
MSNBC Newsweek,
13 June 2025
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The Athletic is already guilty of cynically overexposing Arsenal's Max Dowman and Liverpool's Rio Ngumoha.—
Greg O'Keeffe,
New York Times,
18 June 2025
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Applying a minor exposure adjustment will naturally boost the contrast between darker and lighter tones of your image, and a good result will be one where the solar disk does not appear under- or overexposed.—
Josh Dury,
Space.com,
30 Apr. 2025
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At The Times, Peterson helped to popularize ballet flats, strapless swimwear and Courrèges, among other designers.—
Rosemary Feitelberg,
Footwear News,
17 June 2025
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It’s being popularized by factions who argue that Christianity is being used by opportunists for political gain.—
Lisa Fletcher,
Baltimore Sun,
13 June 2025
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His versions were full-blooded, with lush strings and reasonably large orchestras — and, purists alleged — vulgarizing distortions.—
BostonGlobe.com,
BostonGlobe.com,
28 Oct. 2019
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Ever since his rise to power, Trump has served as a vulgarizing agent.—
Leon Neyfakh,
Slate Magazine,
2 June 2017
Verb
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In the new workplace, don’t exhaust yourself to win over everyone.—
Naira Velumyan,
Forbes.com,
17 June 2025
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If Southern California Edison equipment is found to have sparked the blaze on Jan. 7, as dozens of lawsuits allege, the damage claims could quickly exhaust the state’s $21-billion wildfire fund.—
Melody Petersen,
Los Angeles Times,
16 June 2025
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The always good Farahani has a lot of screaming and shouting to do, pulling it off convincingly but then overdoing it in too many scenes of the same thing.—
Jordan Mintzer,
HollywoodReporter,
19 May 2025
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One of the best ways to accomplish this (without overdoing it) is to think about driving your knees forward and up.—
Jennifer Heimlich,
SELF,
25 Apr. 2025
Verb
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Signs of infestation include a decline in leaf growth, boring dust in the cracks of tree bark and oozing sap, according to University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources.—
Cameron Macdonald,
Mercury News,
20 June 2025
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Burnett seems bored by the conventions of the revenge gangster plot, which took over Black film and music, in the nineties.—
Doreen St. Félix,
New Yorker,
14 June 2025
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“Overuse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overuse. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.
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